Ryan Tedder Quotes

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

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• Songwriting

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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.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Focused
  • Since
  • Mechanics

• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• I'm not into the attention thing so much.

  

  Flume
  • Attention
  • Thing
  • Much

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Process

• 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.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Movies
  • Say
  • Transition

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Black
  • Path
  • Cat

• The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Breakfast

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • World
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

  

  David Boies
  • Money
  • Sunday

• I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Money
  • Question
  • Songwriting