Dayton Callie Quotes

I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Game
  • Philosophy
  • Meaning

• I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Dream
  • Moment
  • Happen

• In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Long
  • City
  • Rock

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

  

  Vera Wang
  • School
  • Art
  • History

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Night
  • Desert
  • Spy

• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Political
  • Human
  • Determined

• I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Travel
  • Leave
  • Desk

• Lying is the rule, not the exception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lying
  • Rule
  • Exception

• I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

  

  Sally Field
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Focus

• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Sister

• I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Society
  • Start
  • Lawyer

• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Friendship

• I like that Amelie is strange, just like me. I'm happy I've gotten to be on this journey following my 'Hamilton' journey because they're so different.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Journey

• I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Time
  • American
  • California

• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Accepting
  • Paper
  • Refuse

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

  

  Dayton Callie