Mike Watt Quotes

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Long
  • Run
  • Trash

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Fortune
  • Censorship

• I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Like

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Thought
  • Page

• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Good
  • Worry

• You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • You
  • Company

• A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Time

• It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).

  

  Duke Ellington

• I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Band
  • Christian
  • Religious

• In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

  

  Paul Heyse
  • Poetry
  • Dissertation
  • Philology

• I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Focus

• The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  

  Yao Ming
  • Hand

• I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Thinking
  • Talent
  • Middle