Shania Twain Quotes

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

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• I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Find
  • Try

• It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Song

• What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Look
  • Find

• I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Blues
  • Liked

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

  

  Najib Razak
  • New
  • Tax
  • Australia

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Loving
  • WIld

• I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Together
  • Political

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Days
  • Over
  • Bond

• I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Think
  • Value
  • Big

• I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Husband

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • House
  • Instant

• Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Powerful

• I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• We felt in the previous two games, we played pretty well. Down the stretch, we kind of gave the games away. Tonight, we found ourselves in the same position and we just didn't let this one slip.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Games
  • Found
  • Position

• You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Control
  • Focus

• American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • American
  • Black

• I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Answers
  • Praying
  • Asks

• Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

  

  Shania Twain