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
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• Insults are the business of the court.

  

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

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
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  • 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

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

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Business
  • Kids

• Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Singing
  • Emotional

• I enjoy a good fight, and always have, and really just said to myself, 'Look, at the end of my term, it'll be 16 years as attorney general, and I'm ready for new challenges. I'm ready to use my skills in a different way to continue to help people.'

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

  

  Brad Holland
  • Art
  • Political

• That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Time
  • Literature

• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• 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