Bobby Balderrama Quotes

All those years of playing, I was scared to talk in front of a mike. I sang backup with Question Mark, and it gave me courage.

Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians

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  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Time
  • Football
  • Year

• I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Death
  • You
  • Imagine

• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
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  • Person
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• Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Growing
  • Without
  • Romance

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • Idea

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Help
  • Hurt

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Parents

• One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • View
  • Meat
  • Humane

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Together
  • Society
  • Support

• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • New York
  • Busy

• Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Art
  • Incredible

• I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Accident
  • Simply

• For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• If there's beer flying at us, it's all good, brother. We started playing tiny redneck bars up in northern Canada where there's tons of beer flying and wire cage protecting the band and all sorts of stuff. So we're down with the party.

  

  Adam Gontier Three Days Grace
  • Playing
  • Beer
  • Canada

• All those years of playing, I was scared to talk in front of a mike. I sang backup with Question Mark, and it gave me courage.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Courage
  • Playing
  • Scared