Bernard Holland Quotes

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

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• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Facts

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• Having a son is not all pleasure.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Son
  • Pleasure
  • Having

• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Poverty
  • Pride

• A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Strong

• I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Think
  • Day

• The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Great
  • Night

• I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Training

• I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Believe
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • People
  • She
  • Parents

• In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Silence

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • Live
  • Action

• I feel like a leopard who has been let out of the zoo and is back on the... jungle, savanna, whatever, I'm not sure where leopards live! The lions may be chasing me, but at least I'm in my element.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Jungle
  • Zoo
  • Leopard

• When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • College
  • Study

• It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

  

  Bernard Holland
  • Motivated
  • Irony
  • Attract