Lee Ranaldo Quotes

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth

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• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Like

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Power
  • Political
  • Opinion

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • Become

• For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Reading
  • Feel
  • Right

• 'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Little
  • Lady
  • Magazine

• I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fun

• My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Good
  • Father
  • Strong

• If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • City

• I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, 'You have to play this.' You have to be brave enough to let everything else go and let the character guide you. When I read a script, I look for that kind of pull.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Character
  • Brave

• I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Help

• My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • War
  • Father
  • Brother

• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Work
  • Failure

• The BBC is almost certainly the best news organisation in the world – the most serious, comprehensive, ethical, accurate, international, wide-ranging, fair and impartial.

  

  Alan Rusbridger
  • International
  • Organisation
  • BBC

• I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Die
  • Rest
  • Religious

• We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Inspiration
  • Spontaneous