Ben Harper Quotes
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.Ben Harper
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
Nate Berkus -
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
Sam Yagan -
We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
Bassem Youssef -
I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
Olga Fonda
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
Barbra Streisand -
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard -
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Wendell Berry -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
Oliver Reed -
I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
Rachel Boston
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
Gary Sherman -
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart -
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress -
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
Wayne Dyer -
When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
Eddy Cue
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
Chris Kyle -
I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward M. Purcell -
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define BETTER with that guy." "Not all fangs and raaaaar.
Rachel Caine -
On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
Flume -
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Ben Harper