Charlie Haden Quotes

There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movie
  • Opportunity
  • Comfort

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Star

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Money
  • War

• All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Life
  • Why
  • Struggle

• The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Game

• There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

  

  Charlie Haden
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