Roy Wood Quotes
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
Roy Wood
Electric Light Orchestra
Quotes to Explore
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
Ted Rall
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Bam Margera
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
Barbara Lynn
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
Sam Hunt
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
Quincy Jones
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
Wayne Coyne
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
Jackie Earle Haley
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
Taiye Selasi
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Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.
Edwin Arthur Hall
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
Calvin Johnson
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It's just bruised, I'll be all right. I'll play Thursday night.
Eric Staal
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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
Roy Wood
Electric Light Orchestra
