Jeremy Denk Quotes

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

Jeremy Denk

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • New York

• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Leader
  • Prophet
  • Operate

• Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Mad
  • Dangerous
  • Go

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Song

• In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • World
  • Business
  • Everything

• It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • America
  • Hollywood
  • Late

• You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Real
  • You
  • Enough

• Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Me
  • Years
  • Been

• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• (Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Working
  • Behavior
  • Russia

• Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People
  • Justice

• I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • World
  • Real

• It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Father
  • Black
  • Son

• I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

  

  Jeremy Denk