Evan Dando Quotes

So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

Evan Dando

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• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• 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

• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • House
  • Man

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

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

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World

• We thought it would be enough to tell of the tidal wave of hatred which broke over the Jewish people for men everywhere to decide once and for all to put an end to hatred of anyone who is 'different' - whether black or white, Jew or Arab, Christian or Moslem - anyone whose orientation differs politically, philosophically, sexually.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

  

  David MacKenzie

• It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Single

• If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

  

  Christine Woods
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

  

  Clive Sinclair

• The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Community
  • Powerful
  • Innovation

• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

  

  Kenneth Clark
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Past
  • Present

• We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

  

  Jill Tarter
  • Earth
  • Learning

• I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Heart
  • May
  • Power

• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Travel

• The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Experience

• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Why
  • Free
  • Feels

• So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Experience
  • Sacrifice
  • Drugs