Jeff Waters Quotes
Studio gives me the option to bring in bands and mixers that I really want to be in here so there’s lots of uses for this place. I don’t have to run it to make money so I can focus on working on projects that I really like.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
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The Holiday Inn Express brand is known for great service, comfortable beds, all-you-can-eat ice from machines at every hotel, so I was pretty excited when they asked me to be a part of their Smart Thinking Platform.
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I've actually never done standup before.
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Only do what your heart tells you.
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It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
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As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.
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Studio gives me the option to bring in bands and mixers that I really want to be in here so there’s lots of uses for this place. I don’t have to run it to make money so I can focus on working on projects that I really like.
