Jeff Lynne Quotes

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra

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• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Small
  • Understand
  • Fast

• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Details

• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Great
  • Training
  • Inspired

• I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Time
  • School
  • Song

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • London

• I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Need

• There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Fans
  • Chicago

• A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Together
  • Fly

• We are the hero of our own story.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • Hero

• Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Pretty
  • Feeling
  • Confidence

• From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She
  • Simple
  • Perspective

• A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Long

• It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Pleasure