Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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• Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Day
  • Laugh

• When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Heroes

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Service
  • Public Service

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cooking
  • Own
  • Rice

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Business
  • Job
  • Think

• In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • School
  • America

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Dad

• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Good Things

• As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Play
  • Actor

• I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • God
  • Learning
  • California

• I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Kind

• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Moment

• You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

  

  Hal Roach
  • People
  • You
  • Laugh

• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Habit
  • Reverence

• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!

  

  Zane Grey

• The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Anything

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Anything
  • Right intentions