Alexis Taylor Quotes
If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch on to, that's great.Alexis Taylor
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz -
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
Mae Jemison -
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand -
I love dressing up.
Bat for Lashes -
I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
Kate Walsh
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey -
Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
Ramez Naam -
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo -
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby -
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
Sam Wood -
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey
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The thought process of India was more around its potential as a cost arbitrage. We always recognised the potential of India, but we were more coming from how can we fit into cost structure rather than selling things here.
John L. Flannery -
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
Lena Horne -
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
Janet Jackson -
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
Neil Diamond -
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
Andy Rooney -
If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Napoleon Hill
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
Ira Glass -
I look at melody as rhythm.
Charlie Parker -
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works...
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Walter Dean Myers -
If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch on to, that's great.
Alexis Taylor