Mitch Albom Quotes
You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
Quotes to Explore
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
K. D. Lang
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
Gary Larson
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
Ildar Abdrazakov
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
Mae Jemison
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
Barbara Sukowa
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
Irving Penn
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
Adam Kluger
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If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
T. J. Miller
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
Jose Manuel Barroso
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
Stephen Fry
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
