Ryan Tedder Quotes
I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.
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I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.
