Bryce Dessner Quotes

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

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• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Best
  • Start
  • Tradition

• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Boy

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Emotional
  • Attachment

• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Human

• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Dreams
  • Here

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Done
  • Truth

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blow

• As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Food
  • Rain
  • Clouds

• No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

  

  Elizabeth Holmes
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

  

  Roger Taylor Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Reality

• I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Moving