Bryan Ferry Quotes

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Fortune
  • Scarf

• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • You
  • Know
  • Hurt

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • True
  • Government
  • Best

• You must never tire fighting Satan.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Satan

• Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Discouraged

• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Want
  • Government
  • Better

• I just really love being in my pajamas.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Being
  • Really

• And this is something that I emphasize wherever I go - democracy does not stop on Election Day. For a real democracy to work, and for a society to thrive and continually improve, it requires that people continue to participate. And there have to be laws in place to protect that space and facilitate people’s ability to participate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Law
  • Literature

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Real
  • Man
  • Enemy

• Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

  

  Howard Aiken
  • Computers
  • Satisfy
  • United States

• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Television
  • Monkey
  • Marches

• I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music