Jonathan Anderson Quotes

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

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• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Walk

• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Great
  • Money
  • Win

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Good
  • Compassion
  • Grateful

• Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Excuses

• I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Political
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him – I'm Nathan Lane?

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Career
  • Relationships

• I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Family
  • School
  • Done

• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Good
  • Writing

• I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Time
  • Sports

• Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll

• Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

  

  Arna Bontemps
  • Lost

• I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Summer
  • Beer

• I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

  

  David Wain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Air

• A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God

• I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing.

  

  Adam Rippon

• We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Funny

• We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • People
  • Certain
  • Amount

• Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • Different
  • History
  • Blessed

• I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

  

  Bob Shaw
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

  

  Jonathan Anderson