Rodney Atkins Quotes
My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
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I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.
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I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.
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The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
