Derek Bailey Quotes

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

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• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
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  • Congress

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • People
  • War
  • Nature

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Grave

• You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Dress
  • Structure
  • Tend

• What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
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• A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy

• Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
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• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
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  • Being

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • She
  • Night
  • Better

• I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Death
  • Choice
  • Horror

• I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Positive

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

  

  Alice Walker
  • God
  • Color
  • Purple

• I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

  

  Derek Bailey