Brownie McGhee Quotes

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Goal

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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  • Movie
  • Challenge

• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Job
  • Like
  • Got

• If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Home
  • Guy

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • You
  • Forgotten
  • Frozen

• Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Market

• Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Future

• I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

  

  Alan Green
  • Life
  • Music
  • Church

• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

  

  John Katzman
  • Job
  • Trust
  • Graduation

• There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

  

  Brownie McGhee
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