Ronnie Dunn Quotes
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
Quotes to Explore
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I love books.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
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Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.
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I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
