Andrew Bird Quotes
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Quotes to Explore
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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I love the song 'Weird' too. It is really weird when you listen to the beat and the words. It's about someone that she's still obsessed with. And everything he does is like he says this, but he does this. And he does this but he says this. It's all twisted around and backwards. She's not really sure who he is or what he does, but she likes it.
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People like to hear the word 'love.'
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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
