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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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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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.
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I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
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Al Gore has all of the positive attributes of Bill Clinton but is saddled with none of his negatives. He's a great big teddy bear of a political figure - Teflon coated, road tested, and everyone's nice guy.
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You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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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.
