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Rodney Crowell Quotes

For me, my career has never been about what I've done. But it's been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: algerian
Birth: August 7, 1950

Topics

Myself Me Career Done Achieving

Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.

Humor Sense Of Humor Entertaining

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

Women Men People Me Men And Women

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

Family Father Teacher Time Money Me

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

Learning Bike Me End Survival Grass

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

Food Restaurant You Page Thirty

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Myself Moment Brain Writing Think

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

People Problems Understanding You

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Stokely Carmichael

Blood Masses Benefit Shed Few

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Baseball Tired Me Saying You Want

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

Man You Down Him Out Got

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

Martin Seligman

Life Good Time People Good Things

You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

Michael Morpurgo

Me World Friends You Lose Find

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