You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.
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Related Love is what makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time. VALERIE ROSE STERRETT The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good. MAGIC JOHNSON I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want... BETTY WRIGHT I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me ... JOEY LAUREN ADAMS I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye... GARY F EVANS... When you are a singer, everyone wants to see you or hear you. It makes you feel good, like they trus... MORGAN CARTER People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately wa... MARGARET ATWOOD You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta ke... CASS ELLIOT You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige. VICKI LAWRENCE Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time. CARLENE CARTER Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with any... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN To survive is to win. ZHANG YIMOU Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. KARL LAGERFELD We're pretty much playing well ... but not everyone at the same time. To beat people like Amity and ... ART FONICELLO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it. PATRICIA RYAN I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh. DAN FOGLER Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Suppressing feelings is never a good thing...if you feel angry, sad, happy, etc...FEEL IT! Go somewh... SANJO JENDAYI Country music has to evolve in order to survive. BLAKE SHELTON I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time. DAMIAN MCGINTY I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time. WAYNE COYNE I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good... AVI I've never seen it in my lifetime. When that Central Michigan group decides that it wants to play, t... JACQUIE JOSEPH When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good lig... TOM ARAYA In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's jus... ZACH WOODLEE To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY There've been a couple of times, I've gone in the closet and had a good hard cry, ... There's been s... AMY GRANT The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them. MARTY RUBIN When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to ... SHAKIRA I hope maybe they can see how you've got work just as hard in class as you do in football if you wan... BRUCE HALL The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they c... EDDIE MURPHY You want to beat them when they're around, but at the same time, you feel like you should also be ra... COURTNEY ZABLOCKI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how s... MITCH ALBOM When all's said and done tears and laughter are much the same thing. After all what difference is th... GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* If what you do gets people to cry, laugh or say 'wow'...you did good. If they do all three, you did ... LORRIN L. LEE Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. ... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL To be able to laugh at one's own shortcomings is positive if it helps to put things into perspective... LINDA PAPADOPOULOS I think we have a pretty good shot. It's difficult, but at the same time we're going to work hard be... BRITTNEY WILLIAMS [A victory could] mean a lot of things. It can mean we beat the No. 1 team in the country. It can me... D.J. OWENS It will be a bit of a challenge for management, in that they probably don't want to sound too optimi... JEFFERY HARTE It will be a bit of a challenge for management, in that they probably don't want to sound too optimi... JEFFERY HARTE To make a good movie, you have to make people laugh. To make a great movie, however, you have to mak... DONALD LYNN FROST You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. When they have pitching like they do, you... JOE MADDON You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive. MARAT SAFIN Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore. BELA KAROLYI Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it... LORRIE FAIR I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different em... OLIVIA HOLT Sam is a truly competitive driver. Yes, I want to beat him and he wants to beat me. But at the end o... HELIO CASTRONEVES It's just going to be a fun time. Comedy really allows you to take your mind off homework and stress... LAURA GARRISON We talk to people who have had breast cancer to help them go through the process. ... Women lose the... NANCY BOLIN Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. HANNA ROSIN If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Everyone has a different body shape, so you kind of have to figure out not only what works best for ... GIGI HADID I feel like it's more important for me to try and say what I want to say than to have the perfect rh... CATIE CURTIS I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countrie... WILL ROGERS She always wants to fix up, wants her hair a certain way. It makes me feel good to see she's happy. LAURA GORDON The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, th... EDDIE MURPHY It's a good feeling to get there. Hopefully since this is their senior year, they're just not happy ... ANDY DISABATO Adrenaline wants to kill you... DEYTH BANGER Wales v England is one to tell your kids about. The game everyone wants to be a part of. To play aga... JOHN HARTSON But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ... CLINTON KELLY We know what those teams have accomplished in the past. But we want to win it all. We feel we have a... ANTHONY WEEDEN Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry. CHRISSIE FIT If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to fe... RACHEL ROY When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look go... FRANCOIS NARS They haven't been chasing the same customers, which can be a challenge. It's good in that it opens u... DAVE GYNN You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l... B.O.B I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in t... FERNANDO ALONSO To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think ... JIM VALVANO Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the ... CARLTON CUSE I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive! MAELLE GAVET Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, a... GERMANY KENT Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time? EILEEN WILKS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. J. J. ABRAMS In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit. DANIELLE DARRIEUX A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The first thing I want to do is congratulate Jim Wooldridge and his players. They won at Kansas, the... KELVIN SAMPSON Everyone wants the opportunity to have a good life and make better money. In India, it's hard to get... AMRIK BHELA When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You fe... KATE MCGAHAN We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time. JAMIE VARLEY I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's ... DANIELLE DAX That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing... DREW BARRYMORE
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JON LANDAU The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n... JON PORTER I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ... JON MEACHAM Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle betwe... JON STEWART I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen... JON TESTER Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority i... JON ORINGER I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'S... JON FAVREAU One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wante... JON MEACHAM What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos... JON FAVREAU War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and... JON ANDERSON Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on s... JON BATISTE You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and... JON FAVREAU People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that y... JON BELLION I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria... JON ANDERSON Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ... JON LANDAU People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th... JON FAVREAU God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ... JON MORRISON If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? JON MCGREGOR At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a wo... JON KRAKAUER It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to... JON KRAKAUER The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change ev... JON KRAKAUER According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a su... JON KRAKAUER