Andy Summers Quotes
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.Andy Summers The Police
Quotes to Explore
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Second place is just the first place loser.
Dale Earnhardt -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe -
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
Jack McBrayer -
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
Washed Out -
The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg -
The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
Babyface
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
Calvin Klein -
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
Usain Bolt -
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
Laura Mvula
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
Aimer, c'est agir
Victor Hugo -
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
James E. Rogers -
I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.
David Arquette -
I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.
Mary Steenburgen -
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
Andy Summers The Police