Dan Monson Quotes

You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.

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• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Always

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Parents
  • Movies
  • Easy

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Effort
  • View

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Why
  • Art

• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Where
  • Sure
  • Inspection

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Control
  • Sky

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning

• In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

  

  Flume
  • Real
  • Successful
  • Pressure

• I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Children
  • Tough
  • Argue

• Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Doing
  • Eating

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Find

• Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Good

• You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Good
  • Waiting
  • Happen