Joe Barton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
-
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
-
I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
-
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
-
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
-
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
-
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
-
I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
-
A teacher should have a creative mind.
-
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-
Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
-
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
-
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
-
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
-
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
-
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
-
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
-
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.
-
You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.
-
I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
-
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
-
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
