Kenny Loggins Quotes

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Kenny Loggins

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Why
  • Art

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Business
  • Feel
  • Emotions

• I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Want
  • Goals

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Stop
  • Quality

• Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Why
  • Look
  • Clothes

• I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Along

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • People
  • Brain
  • See

• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Take Care

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Play
  • Losing

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

  

  Mary Hart
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • People
  • Friends

• Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go.

  

  Max Eastman
  • Science
  • Universe

• Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mad

• I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • People
  • Life
  • Important