Josh Klinghoffer Quotes

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers

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• Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Real
  • Home
  • Night

• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • South

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Why
  • Try
  • Learned

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Going

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • Magic

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• If I was applying for a legal position, I would highlight my experience working for the San Francisco-L.A. DA's office, and I would mention some of the high-profile cases I did, but if I was looking for another television job, I would gloss over that, and I'd mention the highlight reel of what I did in television.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • People
  • Important

• You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Experience
  • Fantasy
  • Contrast