Clint Black Quotes
I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.
Quotes to Explore
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Accept loss forever.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.
