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 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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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.
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For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.
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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.
