Ringo Starr Quotes

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

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• Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Doing
  • Recovery

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • She
  • Dance

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Actor
  • Singer

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Hands

• Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Running
  • Workout

• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Words
  • Single
  • Language

• It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Song
  • Record
  • Part

• If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Death
  • Fall
  • Son

• If your objective is to keep speeds down, I would suggest we eliminate the ban on radar detectors. Drivers who have them pay attention to their speed. If your objective is to write tickets, then we need to keep the ban on radar detectors.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Attention
  • Keep
  • Driver

• So we do nothing? --Claire We do the best nothing you've ever seen. --Michael

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Conversation

• Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Race

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
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