Andrew Bird Quotes
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
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'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
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The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
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I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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I love TV. I love the stability of it.
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I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on 'America's Got Talent'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be 'found' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
