Jeff Buckley Quotes

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
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  • Taken

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
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  • Running

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
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  • Small
  • Fall

• Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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  • Culture

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
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  • Mistakes

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
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  • Everyone

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
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  • Public Domain

• It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
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• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
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  • Take

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
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• And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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  • Concert

• I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the 'No More' symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car.

  

  Amber Cope
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  • Car

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
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• There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

  

  Jeff Buckley
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