Bruce Springsteen Quotes

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Life
  • Healing

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • People
  • Contact
  • Call

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.

  

  David Benatar
  • People
  • Children
  • Humanity

• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Life
  • Time
  • Energy

• When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Country
  • Education

• I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

  

  John Prine
  • Cancer
  • Songs
  • Blame

• Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • People
  • Music