Jon Pardi Quotes
I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
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When you juxtapose it [the movie American Sniper] with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was.... a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims as he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues
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Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.
