Jeff Buckley Quotes

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Myself

• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Live
  • Sales

• I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feel

• The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Walk
  • Stand

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Start
  • Foundation
  • Fitness

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Alive

• I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Bored

• I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Year
  • Twitter

• When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it's pretty awesome.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People

• Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • King

• I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Opinion

• If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
  • Bad

• In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

  

  James Payn
  • Education

• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Thinking
  • High

• I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

  

  Jeff Buckley