Chad Kroeger Quotes

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

Chad Kroeger

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MeWindUniverseYouSometimesTrue

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

Andre Rieu

LifeMusicDailyDaily LifeBrains

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Andrew Davies

SonMeGoingWorkingBeenInstead

1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.

Robert Ingpen

EducationMeLost1950sAgree

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Steve Toltz

FunnyOptimismYouPersonPessimism

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

Robin Williams

FunnyLoveMotherMeLove MeYou

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Ron Perlman

RealityDangerousKindLivingOff

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Michael Novak

KnowUtopiaOneselfDisbelieve

I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.

Milana Vayntrub

LoveChildrenGreatThinkDrawing

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

SchoolHigh SchoolThoughtHoodBoy

You're a constant student, as a musician.

Joshua Bell

YouStudentMusicianConstant

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Diane Warren

GoodAdversityDoorEncouragementGo

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Christopher Walken

ParentsPeopleSpeakThinkRhythm

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