Randy Newman Quotes
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
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Every day be thankful for the nights that turn into mornings, friends that turn into family and dreams that turn into reality.
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It's not my job to look good. It's my job to make other people look good.
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There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
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The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
