Eric Burdon Quotes

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• A novel is not a rant.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Novel
  • Rant

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Work
  • Interested
  • Harder

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • God
  • Different

• I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• When I'm home, my family makes Mexican food, and we listen to a lot of Spanish music together. We love dancing to it.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Family
  • Home

• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art