Tom Atkins Quotes
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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We're here to implement that vision. We're not here to change it.
