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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• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• 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
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• 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

• 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'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

• 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

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• You realize mortality is everywhere.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • You
  • Realize
  • Mortality

• We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Couple

• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Truth
  • Loves
  • Nails

• I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Culture
  • Artists
  • Subject

• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Word
  • Guarded
  • Deed

• 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