Chris Young Quotes

Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Job
  • Inspiration

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

• I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Walks

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Book
  • Find

• Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Screen
  • Cringe
  • Pouty

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Live
  • Back
  • Intention

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • You

• I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Good
  • Positive

• It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Game
  • Way
  • Win

• I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.'

  

  Kevin Chapman

• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Free

• Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

  

  Chris Young
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