Richard Thompson Quotes

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

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• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Short

• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Artist
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Woman
  • Theatre

• I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Time
  • World
  • Home

• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Apple
  • Fences

• Speculation regarding a ECB rate hike is likely to start building further, especially coming on top of the more hawkish comments we have been seeing from the ECB officials, so that will be euro supportive.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Regarding
  • Euro Supportive

• Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Paper

• Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

  

  Augustus
  • Commander
  • Rash

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  

  William Gibson
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Pool
  • Devices

• I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.

  

  Brice Marden
  • People
  • Area
  • Abstraction

• I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

  

  Nick Xenophon
  • Jobs
  • Interest
  • Deals

• Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Worth

• We must realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Realize

• Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Compromise
  • Instruments
  • Acoustic