Jan Hammer Quotes

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

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• I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Stars

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Food
  • Knowing

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Money

• I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Change
  • Growth

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Done

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Women
  • Kind

• If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Islamic
  • Terrorism

• I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Like
  • Find
  • Stand

• I have some sarcastic sides of me.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Me
  • Sides
  • Sarcastic

• You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Yourself
  • Find

• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • May
  • America
  • Today

• I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Life
  • Work
  • Society

• Much as I wish it were not so, we do live in a dangerous world. It has, in fact, always been this way. Our earliest ancestors had to worry about predators, natural disasters, disease, and - unique among our species - attacks by other people.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dying

• My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • She
  • Mother
  • Today