Keith Emerson Quotes

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Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Alone
  • Singing

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Health
  • Things

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Think
  • Film
  • Understand

• One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability

• We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Work
  • Price
  • Oil

• 'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• Perhaps the chief requirement of the conductor is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.'

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Music
  • Service
  • Humble

• If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases it creates a new image of the unit of length.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Long

• You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Done
  • Unique

• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Movie

• Social media is an influence but with my own twist!

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton

• You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Different

• I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I'm not taking for granted being managed by Roc Nation. They have a lot of relations, and they have a reach that I clearly could benefit from.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  

  Hannah More
  • Action

• And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

  

  George Will
  • Men
  • Dignity
  • Notable

• We can all put weight on or lose weight.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer