Andrew Bird Quotes
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
Andrew Bird
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
Zhang Zhidong
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
Kate Moss
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
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Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.
Brian Grazer
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We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.
Bernie Siegel
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
Orson Scott Card
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
Andrew Bird