Charlie Haden Quotes

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • World
  • Funny
  • Lost

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Travel

• Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Past
  • Romantic

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• There's no one who has been living for centuries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Living
  • Been
  • Centuries

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Career
  • Strength
  • Everest

• Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Product

• I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Live
  • Years
  • Canada

• I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.

  

  Zendaya
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Feel

• I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Movie

• The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Great
  • Japanese

• Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

  

  John Michael Hayes

• I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Stories
  • Directors
  • Monster

• We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

  

  Amy Bloom

• A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Universe
  • Ends
  • Tales

• I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

  

  Charlie Haden