Jimi Hendrix Quotes

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Love
  • Think
  • Awesome

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Good
  • Think
  • Interesting

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Control

• My musical career was an accident.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Career
  • Musical
  • Accident

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Hope
  • Like
  • Dreams

• The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Freedom
  • Liberation

• There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Long
  • American
  • Girl

• In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • People
  • Running
  • Sweet

• I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

  

  David E. Hoffman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Realizing

• I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

  

  John Cusack
  • People
  • Good

• I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

  

  John Holdren

• I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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