John Philip Sousa Quotes

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

John Philip Sousa

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• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Up
  • I Can

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Start
  • Confused

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • World
  • True
  • Dream

• My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Christmas

• The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Music
  • Business
  • Parents

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Canvas

• The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Music