Steven Van Zandt Quotes

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Steven Van Zandt

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• Bands
• Rock N Roll

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• This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Sick

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Desire

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Know
  • Say
  • Jail

• When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Fate

• Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Life
  • Time
  • Words

• When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Good
  • Trying

• I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Work
  • Different
  • School

• Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Up

• I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• My mom has helped me so much. She has great style, and she's an amazing dresser.

  

  Lourdes Leon Ciccone
  • Great
  • She
  • Amazing

• I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Alone

• By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Drama
  • Nerd

• What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mind
  • Dress
  • Convention

• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Joy
  • Friendship
  • Grief

• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Marriage
  • Friendship
  • Romance

• I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.

  

  Jay Samit

• Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Friendship
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll