Jeffrey Tate Quotes

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Men
  • College
  • Back

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Law

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Grown

• Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Day
  • Independent

• One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Character
  • Story

• One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Character
  • American
  • Leadership

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Weird
  • Watching
  • Grew

• Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Matter

• We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Help
  • Soul
  • Service

• National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Different
  • Free
  • Opinion

• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Real
  • Art
  • Gold

• I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

  

  Ben Lloyd-Hughes
  • School
  • Study

• I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Freedom

• I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

  

  David Guetta

• It's a blizzard of emotions -- ecstasy and also agony that we had to go through this to start with.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Start
  • Emotions
  • Ecstasy

• I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

  

  Alice Dellal
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Looks
  • Sides

• I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

  

  Jeffrey Tate