Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

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• I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • School
  • Why
  • Learn

• I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Hands
  • Hunting

• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Doing

• More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Different
  • Live
  • Real

• If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • Happy
  • Die

• That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Reading

• You need a spiritual foundation. Something that allows you to see how you connect to the rest of the universe. It's simple stuff, but it's hard.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Simple
  • Universe
  • Rest

• I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.'

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mind

• Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

  

  Lorde
  • Musicians
  • Nobody
  • Females

• We needed to make a few more plays. I think field position was an issue and not being able to get enough plays when we needed to.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Plays
  • Tactics

• Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Competition

• When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Audience

• After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • Change
  • Years

• I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.

  

  Neil Flynn
  • College
  • Theater
  • Impression

• There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Audience
  • Build
  • Size

• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Evidence
  • Vegetarian
  • Beneficial

• Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Impression
  • Expense
  • Psychologists