Don Felder Quotes

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

Don Felder The Eagles

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Work
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• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • God
  • Gift

• I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Sexy

• If direct responsibility for Vietnam rests with the United States, in the Middle East direct responsibility rests not with the United States but with the Soviet Union (and with Britain in 1948 and 1956).

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Responsibility

• I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Different
  • Golf
  • Champion

• Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • World
  • Rest
  • Sales

• For comedy, timing is key.

  

  Benjamin Stockham
  • Comedy

• There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Professional

• When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Family

• How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Mood

• A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write - but they need to know how. What's the right way? How do the professionals do it? What's the secret?

  

  Antony Johnston

• Because of social media, it's bridged the gap between the advertisers and fashion and allowed people to find their group. It really widens what people are viewing and allows brands to see what the public wants to see.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • People
  • Fashion

• When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

  

  Leo Bogart
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

  

  Johnny Miller
  • Golf

• It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

  

  M. Ward
  • Realizing
  • Possibility
  • Strings

• My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

  

  Swizz Beatz
  • Art
  • Side
  • Strings

• Roles that involved, whether it be training, whether it be physicality, getting skinny, there's some investment. There are roles that you do like that and sometimes there are roles that you do to make sure your family doesn't starve, but then you have to still say, "Is there something I can do with this? Can I do something with this that will be fair to the people watching it and fair to my time as well?" I'm at the point where that luxury of choice is getting more and more for me, absolutely, but it's more primarily roles that are more demanding of me in every way.

  

  Luke Goss Bros
  • People
  • Family
  • Sometimes

• Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Meditation
  • Be Happy
  • Seeker

• If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Philosophy
  • Build
  • Poison

• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  

  Don Felder The Eagles
  • Strings
  • Wires
  • Piece of wood