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?

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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

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

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• 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

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

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• 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

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Unknown

• The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

  

  Ian Rush
  • I Can
  • Cook
  • Welsh

• I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Done
  • Space
  • Three

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Live
  • Cancer

• Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Financial

• We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Own

• I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.

  

  Brooke Elliott
  • Support

• When you get moved around, it can be jarring, but it helps to fine-tune your focus in the middle of the season, when other guys are getting a little lackadaisical.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Focus

• To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Alive
  • Jazz

• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Shirley Valentine

• Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Passion

• 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