Clay Aiken Quotes - Page 3

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• Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song - or as he says, 'putting some balls into it' - isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

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  Song, Strong, Kids

  "Building a Better Pop Star". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. October 5, 2003.

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• It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping some kid understand something, that's even better.

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  Teacher, Kids, Differences

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• Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

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  Education, Children, Reality

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• And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

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  Congratulations, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

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  Children, Lying, Way

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• I did get a degree in special education.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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

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  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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• 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 thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

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  Nice, Hands, Leaving

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• Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

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  Sweet, Opportunity, Years

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• I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

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  Degrees, Stink, Shows

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• I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

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  Honesty, What Matters, Who I Am

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

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  Self Esteem, Teenager, Who I Am

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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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• I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

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  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

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  Opportunity, Sight, Careers

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• I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

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  Tv Shows, Special, Tvs

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• Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.

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  Hate, Cat, Kind

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

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  Influence, Fame

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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.

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  Song, Taken, Two

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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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