Burt Bacharach Quotes

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Burt Bacharach

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Connection

• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Neighbor
  • Champagne

• We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Body
  • Place
  • Need

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Know
  • Coffee

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Week

• I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Me

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Actions
  • Experiment

• There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Intuition

• My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Life
  • Live
  • Women

• I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Live
  • Song
  • Tears