Rick Bass Quotes

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Rick Bass

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• Shapes
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• When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Wrong

• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Done
  • Look
  • Disney

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Concrete

• I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Always
  • Poet
  • Reminds

• If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • History
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Good
  • Ways
  • Comes

• There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Good
  • Basketball

• The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Important
  • Environment

• Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

  

  Anne Cameron
  • Truth
  • Half
  • Sees

• Film Loulou is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Environment
  • Suicide
  • Lifestyle

• Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

  

  Eric Anthony
  • Believe
  • Exercise
  • Expectations

• I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Interested
  • Started
  • Dancer

• I have never been interested in specific roles.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Roles
  • Interested
  • Specific

• The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Interested
  • Shapes
  • Cultures