Evan Dando Quotes

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Me

• Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Success
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

  

  Wale
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Problems

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Place
  • Guilty
  • Innocence

• I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Process
  • Convinced
  • Terminal

• Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Just
  • Workplace
  • Worse

• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Disease

• Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Yourself

• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Wisdom
  • Laughter
  • Defeat

• The good part of what comics trains you to do is it trains you - especially if you've worked in mainstream comics like Marvel and DC, or if you're just doing your own independent comics - to compartmentalize things and work on multiple things at the same time. And that's a skill that is incredibly handy in Hollywood, because within the first year that you get here, you realize there's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Reason
  • Independent
  • Hollywood

• My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Know

• I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Enemy
  • Natural
  • Lawyer

• We pushed back a lot of the old things, trying to get rid of the negative stuff and look at this as a new day, a refreshing, reinventing type of thing, ... Doing a musical is something that's been in my heart for years. We finally decided to do it together.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Together

• Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Stuff
  • Looking
  • Corporate