Flume Quotes

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

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• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Rise
  • Income

• Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Idea
  • First
  • New

• I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Life
  • World
  • Puzzle

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Guy

• The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Woman
  • Story

• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Style
  • Son
  • More

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • World
  • Never
  • Doubt

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Important
  • Convinced
  • Limitation

• I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Part

• Hell, that's why they make erasers.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Why

• It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

  

  Blanche Lincoln

• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  

  George Washington
  • Passionate
  • Particular
  • Essentials

• There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Looking