Tim Finn Quotes

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Cute

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Fun
  • Successful
  • Have Fun

• Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Honesty
  • Wonderful

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Look
  • Regrets

• This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Man
  • Human
  • Beast

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • War
  • Church
  • Period

• If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Jesus
  • Clouds

• We have to enforce training that is more emphasized on de-escalation tactics and crisis management control. Once we do that, then we have to put measures in place to reward the officers who are the good officers, which is the majority of them. Then we have to hold accountable the officers that are not abiding by the policies and those laws.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Good
  • Control
  • Training

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Song

• I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Friends

• You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Song
  • Dream
  • Prayer

• Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Writing
  • Song