Michael Eavis (Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis) Quotes

I wanted to hang on to all that tradition; I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. It was important for me to be grounded, and I also was building the farm up. My socialism and the peace group all linked in with my Methodism.

Michael Eavis

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• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Opportunity
  • Film
  • Choices

• Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Books
  • Less

• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Value
  • Price

• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Father
  • Child
  • Now

• You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present

• No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Die

• So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Prayer
  • Politics

• A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Photography
  • Films

• I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Time
  • Done
  • Remember

• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Survival

• The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Important
  • Picture
  • September

• I wanted to hang on to all that tradition; I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. It was important for me to be grounded, and I also was building the farm up. My socialism and the peace group all linked in with my Methodism.

  

  Michael Eavis
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Tradition