Oliver Hudson Quotes

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

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• I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Nice
  • Mom
  • Rock

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Baby
  • Matter
  • Parent

• The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Change
  • Charge

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• "Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • World
  • Art
  • Fundamentals

• The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

  

  Wendy Mass
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Matter

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Together
  • Miracle

• With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

  

  John Burnside
  • Music

• Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Today
  • Things
  • Modern