Garrett Atkins Quotes
I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
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The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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I always polish my shoes and clean the bottom of them before I go out. I also wipe my handbags. I keep them in little bags to stop them getting dusty. You have to keep your accessories looking smart and clean.
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I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.
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I'm an utterly average, total geek.
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I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
