Toby McKeehan (TobyMac) Quotes
I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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People are starting companies at young ages. They fail fast, learn a lot, and keep going.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
