Quotes about america
american-musician catching stuff
I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else. Danny Elfman
american-musician knew liked projects
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
american-musician finished percussion recording studio time
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
american-musician months
I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.
american-musician artificial close reason snare sound specific
Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.
american-musician creating rhythmic
I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
american-musician bars couple exactly fill laying melody pieces
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.
american-musician
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. Bob Seger
american-athlete
I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly. Bob Uecker
american-entertainer contention definition encounter mugged people
It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. Bob Keeshan
american-entertainer children consider encounters everyday good life people prepared requires strength
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
american-journalist few miles pat
A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. Bennett Cerf
american-musician strength women
There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Beverly Sills
american-activist man
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. Betty Friedan
american-activist
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
american-activist equal hard hepburn men movies talk women
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
american-athlete fail lack men
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. Billy Sunday
american-musician
There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other. Bing Crosby
american-musician
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. Billie Holiday
american-musician earth music people
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
american-athlete failures
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. Bill Walton
american-businessman ball clear club draw few people perfectly time
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided. Bill Veeck
american-comedian
I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. Bill Hicks
american-businessman discover good great help potential reach
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
american-businessman request
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
american-businessman best human less living partial people potential settle
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
american-businessman necessary pursuit
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
american-businessman becomes enthusiasm gets roller
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
american-businessman people
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
american-athlete became stayed
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy. Bo Jackson
american-athlete
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
american-athlete kids school
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
american-director apart country falls money tear
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder