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

• If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Future

• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm really proud of both of those guys. I have asked them to do a lot more than most freshman and they have stepped up in a big way.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Proud
  • Guys
  • Freshman

• However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

  

  Saadi
  • Book
  • Action
  • Learning

• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Lawyer
  • Studies
  • Father's House

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

  

  Jonathan Anderson