Karl Wolf (Carl Abou Samah) Quotes

I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

Karl Wolf

• Grew Up
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• Dubai

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• Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Sand
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• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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  • Feel
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• I'm nervous whenever I perform.

  

  Adele
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• Europe was a big surprise. The U.S. continues to perform and European sales are steadily improving, which could lead to better margins and upward EPS (earnings per share) revisions in 2006.

  

  Larry Miller
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• The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Grew Up
  • Grew

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
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• My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Up
  • Hand
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• More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Perform
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• I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Class
  • Grew Up
  • Diet

• Our businesses continue to perform well on all fronts, and we are encouraged by the results posted in the second quarter.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Continue
  • Perform
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• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Live
  • Perform
  • Thrill

• We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Grew Up
  • Performed
  • Inspirations

• If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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• You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

  

  Satya Bhabha
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• As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

  

  Mike Mills
  • World
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  • Talking

• I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Grew Up
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• I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

  

  George Michael
  • Perform
  • Lights
  • Screaming

• Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Nature
  • Choice
  • Remains

• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mother
  • Joy
  • Empathy

• It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • True
  • Eyes

• On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

  

  Sebastian Pinera
  • Important
  • Country
  • Democracy

• I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • High
  • Running

• I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

  

  Karl Wolf
  • Grew Up
  • Perform
  • Dubai