Jeff Lynne Quotes

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

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• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Chance

• Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Intelligent
  • Software

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
  • Student
  • Diary

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Show
  • Gig

• Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Up
  • Sea

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Deep
  • Dancing
  • Talents

• You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Life
  • Think
  • Future

• I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Parent
  • Corruption

• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Mark

• So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

  

  Nia Long
  • Mistake
  • Natural
  • Fewer

• Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

  

  Ian Bannen
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Words

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Shortcut
  • Tree Branch

• Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.

  

  Barbara Bergmann
  • Advice
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
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