Andy Rourke Quotes

It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Day
  • Best

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Work
  • Play
  • Listen

• I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Air

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Children
  • American
  • Christmas

• Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Me
  • Feels
  • Natural

• It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

  

  John Oliver
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I have nothing but respect for 1D. They are great lads.

  

  James Arthur
  • Great
  • Respect

• The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Future
  • Change
  • Absorbing

• I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Guy

• You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • People
  • Up
  • Daily

• It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

  

  Andy Rourke The Smiths
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