Bob Dylan Quotes

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

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• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Know
  • Street

• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • True
  • Numbers
  • Comfortable

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Pretty
  • Look
  • Young

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Life
  • Up

• What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Law
  • Environment

• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Grandfather

• Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Children
  • Small

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Song