Jeff Lynne Quotes

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Doing

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Me
  • Weird

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  

  E. B. White
  • Space
  • See
  • View

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Job
  • Rest
  • Moon

• It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Better
  • Injustice

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Horse

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Helpful

• We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Money
  • Seeing

• When I say that I'm not dancing, people get it confused, like I'm not going to do anything outside of rap. It's not that. When I leave this earth, I want to be remembered as an M.C. But I'm definitely going to touch a lot of other genres, not just rapping.

  

  Astro
  • People
  • Earth
  • Rap

• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • House
  • Song
  • Small

• '2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • House
  • Opinion

• If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • House

• I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • House
  • Studio
  • Gear