Jerry Dammers Quotes

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Myself

• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Short

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Me
  • Mean
  • Fantastic

• Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Proud
  • Guilty
  • Senate

• I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Me
  • Ballet
  • Teachers

• I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Know
  • No Regrets

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Driving
  • Diversity
  • Lonely

• I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Team

• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • School
  • High
  • Law

• In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Why
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

  

  Jerry Dammers
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