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

• 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

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

  

  John Berger
  • World
  • Rest
  • Poverty

• I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

  

  Ang Lee
  • America
  • Culture
  • Care

• People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She's in the middle of nowhere - the closest airport is, like, three hours away - and she manages to connect with black people.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dog

• It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

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

  

  Jan Hammer
  • She
  • Mother
  • Today