Daniel Powter Quotes

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

Daniel Powter

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
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• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Happy
  • Church

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Moment
  • White

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Control
  • Funeral
  • Delay

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Better
  • Say
  • Public

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • God
  • Best
  • Anger

• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Up
  • Done
  • You

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Envy

• I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Business
  • Kids

• We are very far from our potential, but you aren't going to see 500 stores; that wouldn't be consistent with the exclusivity of our brand. You also aren't going to see a Loro Piana perfume, glasses, or watches, because we are concentrating on our core business.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • Business

• Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • Work
  • Music
  • American

• I give no more paroles to British officers.

  

  Christopher Gadsden

• I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Knowledge
  • Friend
  • Disposition

• I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

  

  Daniel Powter
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas