Andy Summers Quotes

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

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• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Effort
  • Same

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Conquer

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Growing
  • Doing
  • Disability

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
  • High
  • Die

• There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Boxing

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People

• I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Marriage

• Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Running
  • Road

• What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • People
  • May
  • Political

• John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

  

  Gary Kleck
  • Control
  • Reading
  • Serious

• It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Serious