Leon Eric Brooks III (Kix Brooks) Quotes

Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or No. 2 market. There's an amazing history of country music here; most people just don't realize. Garth Brooks is still the biggest concert that was ever in Central Park.

Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Decision
  • Young

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Day
  • Step

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Been
  • Twitter
  • Travelling

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Speeches
  • Fatigue
  • Recycling

• I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Morning

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Life
  • Me
  • Succeed

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Life
  • Great
  • Age

• All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Heart

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fear

• Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or No. 2 market. There's an amazing history of country music here; most people just don't realize. Garth Brooks is still the biggest concert that was ever in Central Park.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • Business
  • Market
  • Country Music