Andrew Bird Quotes
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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People trash talk me.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn’t know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song.
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The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
