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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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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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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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
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The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
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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.
