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.

Bobby McFerrin

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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

• 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

• 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

• I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Happy
  • Listening

• Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Food

• My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

  

  Blaise Aguera y Arcas
  • Magic
  • Computers
  • Attraction

• Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

  

  Angela Carter
  • Father

• I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Job

• There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Thanks
  • Turkeys

• It is difficulties that show what men are.

  

  Epictetus
  • Men
  • Show
  • Difficulties

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

  

  Bobby McFerrin