Don Henley Quotes

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Don Henley The Eagles

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• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Want
  • Person
  • Icon

• Working makes me happy, makes me calm.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Happy
  • Calm

• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

  

  Agnes Smedley

• Ah Sin was his name.

  

  Bret Harte

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• Mr Mugabe now has a choice: either he calls of the thugs, allows the media to operate freely, and lets the population of Zimbabwe make a democratic choice, or he and his key ministers will pay the price.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Choice
  • Price
  • Population

• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Earth

• People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People

• I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Song
  • Wish
  • Rap

• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Realizing

• If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Duty
  • Liberties

• Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Disease
  • Homosexuality
  • Administrators

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Away

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I will not live without love.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Live
  • Love

• I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Instrument
  • Ukulele