John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'

John Benjamin Hickey

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• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Technology
  • Kind

• I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Career

• I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sound

• My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Respect
  • Passion

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Great
  • Song
  • Day

• I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Before

• Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Brand
  • Data
  • Transparency

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Crisis
  • Environmental

• How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Words

• If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Good
  • Children
  • Home

• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Good
  • America

• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Decision

• I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • Friends
  • Band

• Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Italian

• My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

  

  Jeremy Miller
  • She
  • Small
  • Grandmother

• I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Italian

• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  

  William Golding
  • Together
  • Fighting
  • Communication

• My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • Italian