Dionne Bromfield Quotes

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

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• I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Vacation
  • Restaurant

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• Golf and dating don't mix.

  

  Larry David
  • Golf
  • Dating
  • Mix

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• War is the province of danger.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Danger
  • Province

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Money
  • Government
  • Between

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Death
  • Feel
  • Sad

• Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Wind
  • Gun

• You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Effort

• (In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?':)

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • World
  • Free
  • Question

• The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Long
  • Road
  • Door

• God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • God
  • Christ
  • Shows

• Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

  

  Bono U2
  • Jesus
  • Scriptures
  • Good Teacher

• I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.

  

  Walt Simonson
  • Hair
  • Fan
  • Comic

• It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Music
  • Country
  • History

• I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

  

  Dionne Bromfield