Alex Chilton Quotes

There's just something that's greater than the sum of its parts when we play together,

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dream

• MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
  • Period

• I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Pursue

• There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Mind
  • Development
  • Contradiction

• There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Done
  • Hand
  • Crazy

• My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Important
  • Information
  • Entropy

• The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Way
  • Courage
  • Cowardice

• We have to stop leaders who are not prepared to look to the future, who continue to look to the past, who are not prepared to look to the 21st century and continue to do terrible things to their people.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Future
  • Leaders
  • Continue

• I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Activity
  • I Hate
  • Instructs

• Stop focusing on Trump so much and focus on your government. Make sure you elect the people that you want in your neighborhoods, in your cities, in your state.

  

  PJ Morton Maroon 5
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Focus

• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Determine

• You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

  

  Steve Zahn
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Parts

• I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• There's just something that's greater than the sum of its parts when we play together,

  

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