P. J. O'Rourke
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CHRISTINA GRIMMIE ALY MICHALKA So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and..... CALLIE THORNE You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#... ADAM BROWN BEBE REXHA When you have a new baby, you can get really overwhelmed, since it's such a huge responsibility.... AMY LOCANE JAMES MCBRIDE You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker. HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ WILLIE NELSON There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I hap... AL STEWART J. J. WATT
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. 
My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in l... 
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&... 
If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determi... 
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he&#... 
It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents ... 
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in... 
The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind ... 
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just thi... 
So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of ... 
At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in towa... 
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I s... 
I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - ... 
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... 
I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV. 
My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,... 
I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can'... 
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? 
I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compli... 
It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo... 
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great ... 
When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breat... 
People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W... 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. 
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ... 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. 
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. 
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to... 