Adrian Belew Quotes

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

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• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Control
  • Best
  • Focus

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Years
  • Protection

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Why
  • Day
  • Fly

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feeling
  • College
  • Brain

• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
  • Important
  • Teach

• I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.

  

  Maluma
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Determination

• I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Interior

• Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Different
  • Practice

• I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Seen

• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Always
  • Changing
  • Momentum

• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Walls

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Business
  • America
  • Leadership

• Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Good
  • Today
  • Control

• I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stars

• I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Together
  • Europe
  • Played

• I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

  

  Adrian Belew