Roger Daltrey Quotes

You can do too much and oversell your market.

Roger Daltrey The Who

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• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Real
  • Family
  • Political

• When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Me
  • Intelligent
  • Charming

• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Father

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Complicated

• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Government

• I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Own

• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Bismarck traveling in an open carriage through the green valley of Hofgastein to Salzburg with Vortragender Rat Robert von Keudell and Geheimrat Heinrich Abeken on 18 August 1865 after the Gastein Convention had been signed on 14 August 1865 (as reported by Keudell). Bismarck: Die gesammelten Werke, Band 7 Gespräche, 1924, p. 101

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die
  • Band
  • Green

• I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Lost

• Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Real
  • High

• In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

  

  Charli XCX
  • World
  • Work
  • Unique

• I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Proud
  • Teenager

• Lost in this young world, I'm just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I'm just trying to grab a plate.

  

  G-Eazy
  • World
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Language
  • Genuine
  • Primitive

• You can do too much and oversell your market.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who