Rodney Atkins Quotes
I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
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People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, he remembered. The doctors were against me - they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
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The cosmetics world and mentalism are both arenas of deception, but I suppose the difference is that mentalists and magicians are more honest about it. People tell me I have good skin, and I tell them the magic secret is E45 cream: cheap, cheerful, and very effective.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'
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I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
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I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
