Jon Pardi Quotes
'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.
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I really love storytelling.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
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The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.
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Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.
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The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
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'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.
