Calvin Ayre (Calvin Edward Ayre) Quotes

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

Calvin Ayre

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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Real
  • Guy

• I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Just

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Charity
  • Benefits
  • Perform

• I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Doing
  • Popular
  • Some

• When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • School
  • Art
  • Grandparents

• Be black, shine, aim high.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • High
  • Black
  • Shine

• The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Opposites
  • Hunters

• Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Eternity

• I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.

  

  Pablo Francisco
  • Mother
  • Fall
  • Baby

• I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Funny lines

• The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • World
  • Clicks

• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Biology
  • Diseases
  • Fascination

• I had so much pressure from the fans. No one knew what was going on. I had to keep my mouth shut. I think that builds the excitement anyway, so I’m glad we did it the way we did. I’m so glad that it’s out now.

  

  Jack Gilinsky
  • Fans
  • Pressure
  • Excitement

• Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Sleep
  • Wealth

• One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Wealth
  • Failing
  • Excitement