Michael Zaslow Quotes

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

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• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dog
  • Wall
  • Voice

• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Work
  • Air

• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Child
  • Actor
  • Turn

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

  

  Edmond About
  • Name
  • Danger
  • Conversation

• Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • World
  • Gym

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Washington
  • Endless
  • Clearly

• Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.'

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Heart
  • Food

• From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

  

  David Suzuki

• There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Beautiful

• I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • She
  • Funny
  • Water

• Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Life
  • She
  • Die

• I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

  

  Lauren Greenfield
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Present

• The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

  

  Allen C. Guelzo
  • Revenge
  • Graves
  • Pursues

• I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

  

  Alison Wright
  • Men
  • Women
  • Proud

• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Gold
  • Forget
  • God Is

• There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

  

  Michael Zaslow