Suggs (Graham McPherson) Quotes

Everything was happening in the 70s. We were coming out of a period of austerity and things were pretty dark and then punk came along. It taught us that you didn’t need to be a musical virtuoso to start a band – and we certainly were not.

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• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • She
  • Better
  • Information

• People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Understand

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Late

• I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Power
  • Girl

• Make sure you have a clear understanding of your values and intent, then use technology to enable that. What the tech won't do is compensate for a lack of strategy.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • High
  • Smart
  • Ignore

• I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

  

  Jason Wu
  • World
  • Different
  • Fashion

• You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Different
  • Long
  • Live

• Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

  

  Jalal Talabani

• My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Life
  • Music
  • Purpose

• All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • World
  • Family

• And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • People
  • Moral

• For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Vacation

• Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Bad

• I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Work
  • Food

• A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Water
  • Teacher
  • Marvelous

• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Trust
  • End

• This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Different
  • Important
  • Learning

• Everything was happening in the 70s. We were coming out of a period of austerity and things were pretty dark and then punk came along. It taught us that you didn’t need to be a musical virtuoso to start a band – and we certainly were not.

  

  Suggs
  • Music
  • Band
  • Virtuoso