Mark Ronson Quotes

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

Mark Ronson

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• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Animal
  • Rain

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
  • Very
  • Eating

• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Me
  • Difficult

• I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Work
  • Son
  • Tools

• I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Love
  • Dress
  • Hat

• America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • America
  • Amazing
  • New York

• You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.

  

  Kate Levering
  • People
  • Up
  • Chicago

• I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • Know
  • Build

• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Step
  • Test

• The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Success

• I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

  

  Shakira
  • Trying
  • American
  • Girl

• The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Forgiveness

• When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

  

  Mark Ronson