Richard Thompson Quotes
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.Richard Thompson
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Dan Marino -
We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
Nadia Comaneci -
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman -
I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
Idris Elba -
'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
Kat Graham
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
Immanuel Kant -
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Carl Jung -
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson -
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley -
Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
Pierce Brosnan -
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
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The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
John von Neumann -
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
Wanda Jackson -
I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
Buzz Aldrin -
We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.
Joe Gibbs -
I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Beverly Johnson
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I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
Jason Mraz -
My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Richard Thompson