Mick Ronson Quotes

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

Mick Ronson

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• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• I am not a fashion freak!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Freak

• The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Scenes

• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Look
  • Face

• If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Method
  • Buddhism
  • Followers

• Increased fragmentation of production across international borders - a natural outgrowth of the gains from specialization - meant more trade for any given value of final production, thus adding to the major expansion in gross trade flows in the 1990s and 2000s.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Value

• I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Truth
  • Blessed

• When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

  

  Ben Vereen

• You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Trying
  • Song

• The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Human

• By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stills

• I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

  

  Mick Ronson
  • Trying
  • Guitar