John Henry Patterson Quotes

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

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• As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • People
  • Action
  • Attention

• In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Character
  • History

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Talking
  • Europe
  • Waves

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• I remember now how our bright spring green deepened.With the years the seasons changed,And we were lush as the underside of August.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Spring

• I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well.

  

  Andrew Fletcher
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Paris

• My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Next
  • Aim
  • Months

• Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

  

  John Henry Patterson
  • Wonder
  • Next
  • Plans