Rodney Atkins Quotes
The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
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All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
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Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.
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We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
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But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.
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The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
