Steve Lukather Quotes

hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

  

  Feist
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Running
  • Best
  • Travel

• I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Focus

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Politics
  • Interest
  • Kid

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Me
  • Mean
  • Fantastic

• Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Growing

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Like

• Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Interesting
  • Journey
  • Affinity

• When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Immigration

• hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.

  

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