Dave Wakeling Quotes

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.

Dave Wakeling

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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Real
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Man
  • Relationship

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Society
  • Easy

• My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Music
  • You
  • Brothers

• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Dress
  • Top
  • Chef

• I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

  

  Alan Bleasdale
  • Business

• To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Good
  • Important
  • Nature

• I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Painting

• The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

  

  Klaus von Klitzing
  • World
  • Country
  • Famous

• I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.

  

  Mayte Garcia

• To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Opinion
  • Thoughts

• An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Experience
  • Teenager

• I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend's mom's car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else's car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn't get behind the wheel again until I had my driver's license.

  

  Amanda Righetti
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • America
  • Humans
  • Diversity

• When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.

  

  Dave Wakeling
  • Teenager
  • Groups
  • Buddhist