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I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
Author: Kim Gordon
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.
Author: Rupert Murdoch
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.
Author: Stephen Spender
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
Author: Brian Chesky
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Author: Jeffrey Kluger
We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.
Author: Ilchi Lee
Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
Author: Marie-Antoine Careme
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
Author: Bruce Springsteen
I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the "real comedians". I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude.
Author: Chelsea Peretti
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.
Author: John Leguizamo
When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence.
Author: Sri Chinmoy
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
Author: Psalm 139:9
I haven't felt so alive in years The sun is shining down on me My eyes are welling up with tears Tears of joy, tears of ecstasy
Author: Assemblage 23
I cant go back, ...no more. Just turn to me, and Ill show you, Exactly what's in store. But still you look away, turn around, And gently close the door.
Author: 48 Rooms
Your heart sings like a kettle And your words they boil away like steam And a lie burns long While the truth bites quick A heart is built for both, it seems
Author: Lisa Hannigan
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.
Author: John C. Reilly
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
Author: Alastair Campbell
I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.
Author: Mitt Romney
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Author: Hjalmar Branting