Gene Baur Quotes
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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux -
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
Pablo Picasso -
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella Abzug -
They were also the tracks on which we channelled a love of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder. Ian Curtis had first introduced us to the icy Germans, and that was quickly followed by an even greater admiration for Moroder, particularly his work with Donna Summer on ‘I Feel Love’ and his production of the wonderful Sparks track ‘Number One Song in Heaven’. His solo record E=MC2 became a big inspiration and definitely led us into ‘Temptation’. All we had to do was work out how they bloody did it.
Peter Hook New Order -
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
Tré Cool Green Day -
Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.
Paul Krugman
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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
Sarah Dessen -
Don't get confused; doing choreography in the ring can be done by anyone. I take the guy who works in the gas station on the corner, and I teach him a choreography for a week, and I swear he can do it in a ring.
Alberto Del Rio -
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.
Anoushka Shankar -
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
Wole Soyinka -
The world is pretty messed up.
Brett Gelman -
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.
George L. Carlson
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I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.
Josh McDermitt -
This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.
Carl Pohlad -
I really do believe that youth comes from how you look at the world.
Sutton Foster -
Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.Muste worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.
Nat Hentoff -
Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers, they think there's going to be some horrible catastrophe and how will we survive? And then there's people that are more like, "We want to be socialists and have communal chicken coops." It really runs the whole gamut.
Novella Carpenter -
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.
Gene Baur