Andrew Bird Quotes

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

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• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Home
  • Food
  • Rather

• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Home
  • Born
  • New

• We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Live
  • Power
  • Nature

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Great
  • Music
  • Two

• Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

  

  Major Owens
  • World
  • Children
  • Teacher

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Start

• I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Best

• I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Nice

• I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• Fame does not define me. If you are looking for fame to define you, then you will never be happy and you’ll always be searching for happiness, and you will never find it in fame. Fulfillment comes from within you, by being authentic to yourself - not chasing fame.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Happy

• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Work
  • Action

• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Philosophical

• I couldn't read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, 'This is a skill that I'm developing - how to just get around everything!'

  

  Joel McHale
  • Brain
  • Silly

• People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

  

  Fred L. Turner
  • People
  • Heart

• I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

  

  Tyler Posey
  • People
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Novelists

• Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

  

  Andrew Bird