Denison Witmer Quotes

I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.

Denison Witmer

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• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Link

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Moments

• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Different
  • Bed

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Hamlet

• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Understand
  • Explore
  • Little

• I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Writing
  • Future

• Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

  

  Jack London
  • Age

• In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • America
  • Action

• ...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Backgrounds

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Lasts
  • Competing

• I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

  

  Conrad Ricamora

• I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Reality
  • Create
  • Truths