David Amram Quotes

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

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• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Boy
  • Definitely
  • Daddy

• I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Way
  • Working
  • Opposite

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Reality
  • Star
  • Doors

• I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Wrestling
  • Retirement

• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • World
  • Want
  • Now

• I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Free
  • Small

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • May
  • Power
  • Earth

• Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Curiosity

• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • City
  • Design

• People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• 'Maybe I shouldn’t have told you-about it being electrical.' She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.'No,' Rick said. 'I’m glad to know. Or rather-' He became silent. 'I’d prefer to know.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • She
  • Hand
  • Guilty

• It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Road

• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  

  David Amram