Ingrid Michaelson (Ingrid Ellen Michaelson) Quotes

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Ingrid Michaelson

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• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

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• I like things simple.

  

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• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

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• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

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• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

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• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

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• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

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• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

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• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  

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• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

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• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  

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• Young people want you to be real with them.

  

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• I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

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• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

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• I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

  

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• I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

  

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• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

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• Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

  

  Kiki Smith
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  • Father

• To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy.

  

  Dan Howell
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• Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • People
  • Father
  • Musician