Atticus Shaffer Quotes
We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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Live fast, die young.
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Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.
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There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!
