Beth Nielsen Chapman Quotes

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective.

Beth Nielsen Chapman

• Songs
• Commercial

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
  • Effort
  • Stand

• Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Action

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Necessary

• Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Man
  • Right
  • Lines

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

  

  Chris Colfer
  • School
  • Night
  • Morning

• The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • God
  • Humans
  • Achievement

• Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Lost

• The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Nerves

• It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.

  

  Oliver Cowdery
  • Great
  • Men

• Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.

  

  Densey Clyne
  • Responsibility
  • Neglect
  • Delights

• Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mood
  • Tolerance
  • Acknowledgement

• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.

  

  Paul Singer
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Ratings

• I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective.

  

  Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • Songs
  • Commercial