Jools Holland Quotes

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
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• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Sit

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Fly
  • Sell
  • Acid

• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
  • Know
  • Kind

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
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• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
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  • Start
  • Luck

• It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Rest

• The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Relationship

• Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Bad
  • Hand

• I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

  

  Dmitry Medvedev
  • Hand

• … there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • River

• Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

  

  Jools Holland
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