Bobby McFerrin Quotes

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

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• The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Name
  • Saying

• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
  • News

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Know

• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Connection

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• There are such strong women in my life that there's no chance of me getting too big for my boots.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Women
  • Strong

• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• The socialism of continental Europe, taking it by and large, is actively hostile, not only to bad forms of organized religion, but to religion itself.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Bad

• An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

  

  Isaac Barrow

• Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, 'Will you touch my vagina...?' and she's like, 'What!?' and I'm like, 'That's what you're supposed to say.'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Woman
  • Vagina

• We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Age

• I'm wild again, beguiled againA simpering, whimpering child again;Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I.Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleepWhen love came and told me, I shouldn't sleep;Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I.I'm wild again! Beguiled again! A simpering, whimpering child again,Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Sleep

• Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Men

• Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Audience
  • Content

• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  

  DMX
  • Up
  • House
  • Attention

• I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Message

• Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

  

  John O. Brennan

• I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

  

  Bobby McFerrin