Jeff Lynne Quotes

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

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• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

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• There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

  

  Usher
  • Believe
  • Dreams
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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
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• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
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  • Beginning
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• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Real
  • Enemy

• In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

  

  Laura Bush
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• switch (ref $@)  OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained';  DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained';  NuclearWarError => die;

  

  Larry Wall
  • Die
  • King

• When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music

• At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it's just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I'm not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People

• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  

  Luc Montagnier
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• Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.

  

  Ana Navarro
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• Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Society

• The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • American
  • Imagination

• In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

  

  Bono U2
  • Faith
  • Politicians
  • General People

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.

  

  Ludwig Tieck

• Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Living
  • Ecstasy
  • Fragility

• It's always fun to try something new. People think every avenue has been explored on TV, but this has never been done. That, in itself, really excites me.

  

  William Moseley
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Something

• I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Tree
  • I Think
  • Producer