Simon Van Booy Quotes
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.Simon Van Booy
Quotes to Explore
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
Nancy A. Collins -
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
Adam McKay -
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten -
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall -
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
Zara Phillips -
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson -
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen -
I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
Ted Yoho -
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
Cara Buono -
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Ira Glass -
People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
Yair Lapid -
I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
Abbie Cobb -
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!
Jesse Ventura