Levon Helm Quotes

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

Levon Helm

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• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Acting
  • Just
  • Wardrobe

• I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • Think
  • New York

• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Look
  • Run
  • Trees

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Looks
  • More

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Future
  • Final

• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not-or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Real
  • Money

• How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Universe
  • Dark
  • Sky

• I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse - borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne - misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be - let it end.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life

• Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.

  

  Aeschylus

• I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?" "Blow me Shane." "Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table." "Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it." Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it." "You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Party
  • Eyes

• Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

  

  Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Baseball

• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • May
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Money
  • Social
  • Rumors

• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Girl

• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

  

  Levon Helm