Randy Bachman Quotes

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Yourself
  • Looking
  • Data

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Help
  • Door
  • Story

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Motivational

• I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Same
  • View

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Desire
  • Humility

• The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.

  

  John Calvin
  • Men
  • Father
  • Judge

• As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Together
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Together
  • Band
  • Find