Rodney Atkins Quotes
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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I actually once sat at the back of a payroll class in America - just me and 40 women! And I'm sitting back there, learning payroll, because I want to understand it. So that when I talk to people about payroll I know what they're talking about. And I set up and managed and ran a full payroll system myself.
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
