Charlie Haden Quotes

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Today

• I've been things and seen places.

  

  Mae West
  • Things
  • Places
  • Seen

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • City
  • Benefit
  • Detriment

• I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.

  

  Donald Byrd
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Up
  • Good

• Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Positive

• I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Black

• My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

  

  Charlie Haden
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