Jonny Greenwood Quotes
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
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People want to have a voice and a say in what is news.
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I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
