Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
Ja Rule -
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
Gabriella Wilde -
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. Waite -
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West -
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
Barry Ritholtz -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg -
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Frances McDormand -
People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
Coretta Scott King -
I have already made it clear that there is an atmosphere of complete peace in the country. This country has never been intolerant and won’t be so in the future too.
Arun Jaitley -
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
Alexander Chee -
I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
Astro Teller
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop -
... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
William James -
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz -
People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
Calvin Klein -
There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz