Hamid Drake Quotes
When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like planned out.Hamid Drake
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I love working the legislative process.
Kate Brown -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
Harry Belafonte -
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
Zac Brown Band -
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor -
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
Dan Fouts -
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama -
It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
Wendy Kopp
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
Barry Watson -
I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde -
The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz -
There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
Feng Zhang
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie -
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth -
Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.
Jessica Chastain -
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Dean Inge -
I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers. So the pressure comes from myself.
Meek Mill -
When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like planned out.
Hamid Drake