Lee Ranaldo Quotes

We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• Look good, feel good, play good.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Energy
  • Same
  • Sound

• Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Emotional
  • Better

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Nature
  • See
  • Development

• In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

  

  David Hunt
  • Community

• Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Inspiration

• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Humanity

• I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Control

• I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • Money

• No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Oxygen

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Problem

• It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Wall

• I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

  

  William DeVries
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Presses

• We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Inspired
  • Make
  • Sounds