David Sanborn Quotes

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Day

• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Art
  • Crazy
  • Doors

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • People
  • Live
  • Advice

• I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

  

  Li Lu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Chinese

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Best
  • Try

• I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Control

• Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • History
  • Strong

• I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

  

  David Sanborn
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting