Calvin Harris (Adam Richard Wiles) Quotes

The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

Calvin Harris

• Music
• Job
• Sleep
• Wind

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Busy

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Good
  • Respect

• I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • Music
  • Long
  • American

• It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Broken

• The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

  

  Cullen Murphy
  • Exist
  • Allowed
  • Spain

• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep