Flea Quotes

So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.

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• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Man

• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Sun

• I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Page

• There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Popular

• I like to relax and get my mind off of business for a few hours.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Relax

• I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Wife
  • Month
  • Marrying

• Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • Country
  • War
  • Crime

• Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.

  

  Dan Simmons

• I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real
  • Die
  • Simple

• A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Walking

• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Real

• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Logic

• I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Team

• I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Food
  • Vegas

• Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dream

• Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell

• Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Fear
  • Failure

• So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.

  

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