Evan Dando Quotes

I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.

Evan Dando

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• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
  • Yale

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Superman

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • World
  • Will
  • Possible

• One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Many
  • Other
  • Edison

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Song
  • Feelings
  • Tenderness

• My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Mum

• In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Idea
  • Bank

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Television

• Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • People
  • Happy
  • Society

• You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Happy
  • Song

• Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Brain

• I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Happy
  • Expression
  • Wandering