Ronnie Dunn Quotes

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • House
  • Body
  • Room

• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Sing
  • Shower

• I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Interested

• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Kids
  • Game
  • House

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Money
  • Dad

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Wife
  • Player
  • Claim

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Thinking

• No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People
  • Kids

• I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • House
  • Lazy

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Great
  • Children
  • Wife

• Put your goals on paper, or an Excel spreadsheet. Measure every day, 'Did I do my best to...?' Your problems won't disappear, but you will exist in a different relation to them, and you will improve.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Different
  • Goals

• On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Decision
  • Waiting
  • Down

• There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Baby
  • Shows

• I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Husband
  • Reproduce

• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • House