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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
-
I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
-
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.
-
Better to be disliked than pitied.
-
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.
-
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
-
Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
-
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
-
I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
-
We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
-
The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
-
I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
-
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
-
I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training.
-
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.
