Bryce Dessner Quotes

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

Bryce Dessner The National

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
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  • Wisdom

• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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  • Mind
  • Remember

• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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  • Steal

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
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• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• Fage does not make great yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
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• Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Equality

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
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  • Rock

• The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

  

  Ellen G. White
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  • Light

• You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
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• Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

  

  Bill Luff
  • Perspective
  • Shadows
  • Orchestration

• I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock