Al Jardine Quotes

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

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• I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I don't study; I create.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Study
  • Create

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Team
  • Never
  • Give

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Success
  • Safe
  • Haven

• Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Big
  • Songwriting
  • Isolation

• Culture follows power.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Follows

• The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Different
  • Government
  • Legal

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Moving
  • Stupid
  • Mountains

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Happy

• Nelson, re. Annabelle ...'she wants what everybody wants. She wants love.'

  

  John Updike
  • She

• Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Perfect

• Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • View
  • Congress
  • Members

• If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

  

  Marlon James
  • Up
  • Women
  • Book

• I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

  

  Al Jardine