Ginger Baker (Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker) Quotes

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Think
  • Worry
  • Disasters

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
  • Kiss

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Art
  • Process
  • Potential

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Voting

• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Information

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • People
  • Night
  • Science

• One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.

  

  Valerie Worth
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • School
  • High
  • Basketball

• I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.

  

  Jason Kander
  • People
  • Trump

• I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

  

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