Mike Dean Quotes

I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.

Mike Dean

• Always
• Sound
• Guitar
• Lesson
• Fascinated
• Dorothy

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• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Hope
  • Born
  • Legacy

• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Game
  • Turn

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Better

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Day
  • Run
  • Push

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Play
  • Church

• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Career
  • Changed

• I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • You
  • Rules
  • Grandfather

• We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Running
  • Old

• The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Me
  • Hand

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Wind
  • Stronger

• The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Created
  • Levels
  • Democratic World

• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sacrifice

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Single
  • Amazing

• I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.

  

  Mike Dean
  • Always
  • Sound
  • Guitar