Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes

I’m lucky to have the life I have. You don’t know how long you’re going to be around but it’s good to know that my son and daughter (Matt and Kate Alexa) will continue the Gudinski name at Mushroom Group. But I’m certainly not going to put my feet up. I’m going to keep an eye on the legacy.

Michael Gudinski

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Aesthetic

• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Books
  • Holland
  • Publicize

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • You
  • Ego
  • Impact

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law
  • Chaos

• It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Fire
  • Violent

• My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Same

• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Children
  • Family
  • Love

• I’m lucky to have the life I have. You don’t know how long you’re going to be around but it’s good to know that my son and daughter (Matt and Kate Alexa) will continue the Gudinski name at Mushroom Group. But I’m certainly not going to put my feet up. I’m going to keep an eye on the legacy.

  

  Michael Gudinski
  • Life
  • Legacy
  • Around