Chris Hillman Quotes

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Chris Hillman The Byrds

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
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• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
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• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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  • Remember
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• You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
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• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
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• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
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  • Giant

• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  

  Larry Holmes
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• Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
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• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
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• There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
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• Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?

  

  Charlie Parker
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• The real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Real
  • Job
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• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  

  Frank Black
  • Life
  • Up
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• I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Connection
  • Fans

• All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Music
  • Country