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

• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Deeds

• Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Motherhood
  • Woman`s
  • Perpetual

• How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

  

  Anne Clark
  • Art
  • Scream
  • Silenced

• You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Wonder
  • Keep
  • Instrument

• 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