Bernie Worrell Quotes

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Bernie Worrell

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Fashion

• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Own

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Survivor

• My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mother

• My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

  

  Bernie Worrell
  • Mother