Bruce Oldfield Quotes

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Place

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fingers
  • DNA
  • Chemical

• I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Aspect
  • Crowd
  • Performer

• When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Done
  • Food
  • Entrepreneur

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Church
  • Water
  • Deep

• People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People

• And I don't even gotta make no goddamn sense, I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit!

  

  Eminem
  • Song

• Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. (The TMZ Show)

  

  Charlie Sheen

• I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Time
  • Today

• All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Parents

• I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.

  

  Juan Pablo Montoya
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Won

• Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

  

  Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Home

• We're continually poring over plans, and the decision is difficult, but it's definitely coming soon. The idea with Barr is not bad and might convince me to take your advice, if B. really does get involved.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Bad
  • Decision
  • Advice

• Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

  

  Eva Kaili
  • Economy
  • Depression
  • Investment

• Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

  

  Bruce Oldfield