Clay Aiken Quotes - Page 2

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• Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, North Carolina, Andy Griffith Show

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• There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

  Clay Aiken

  Stars, Exposure, Dies

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• I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

  Clay Aiken

  Idols, Sixteen, Tvs

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• I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

  Clay Aiken

  Broadway, Made, Expected

  "Clay Aiken Remains Steadfast On His New CD". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. March 27, 2012.

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• The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

  Clay Aiken

  Sex, People, Drunk

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.31, Random House

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• No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

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  Important, Matter, Environment

  "Clay Aiken on coming out: 'I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

  Clay Aiken

  Opportunity, Thinking, Way

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, W Publishing Group

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• When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

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  Notebook, Mother, Writing

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.10, Random House

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• I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

  Clay Aiken

  Song, Taken, Two

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• I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.

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  Party, Thinking, People

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• If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

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  Believe, Who I Am, People

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.219, Random House

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• We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

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  Law, Numbers, Issues

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• I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

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  Want, Voters, Broads

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• If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

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  Mean, People, Lines

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• I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

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  Jobs, Hate, People

  "Clay Aiken’s Incredibly Awkward Newsweek Interview". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.

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  Country, Song, Mean

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.16, Random House

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• I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

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  Thinking, Afterlife, Littles

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• I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

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  Thinking, Obligation

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• While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

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  Support, May, Belief

  Today's Christian Magazine, November 2005.

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• You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

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  Love You, Thinking, Stronger

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• I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

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  Responsibility, America, Role Models

  Reuters, February 22, 2004.

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• I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

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  Jobs, Glasses, Hair

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• I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

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  Children, Thinking, One Day

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• But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

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  Influence, Fame

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