Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
  • Immigration

• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Pretty
  • Politics
  • Baseball

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Ideas

• Novel writing wrecks homes.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Homes
  • Wrecks

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Feel
  • Beauty
  • Classic

• We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Used

• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • True
  • Free

• In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Love
  • Faith

• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Character
  • Always
  • Service

• I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Possible

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Writing

• I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

  

  Doris Day
  • Song
  • Man
  • Special

• Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Wall

• Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Single

• I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Performance
  • Comedian
  • Comics

• The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Laws
  • Master

• In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • House
  • Attention
  • Morning

• Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Helping
  • Challenges
  • Lord

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had