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My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.