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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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.
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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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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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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.
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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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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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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.
