J. Daniels Quotes

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

I don't want to go anywhere where Jesus can't go.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

All I ever wanted to do was act.

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

I don't know where the time went. I sure have enjoyed it.

I don't want to be without God's blessings. If it's inconvenient, then it's just inconvenient. If somebody don't like it, then somebody just don't like it. That is part of me. That's who I am.

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.

I don't want to be without God's blessings.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".

Most people hate to say no - but not nearly as much as other people hate to hear it.

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