Al Jarreau Quotes

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

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• I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Long
  • She
  • House

• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • Nothing
  • Middle

• My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

  

  Edmund White
  • Better
  • Determined
  • Rather

• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Music
  • Different
  • Myself

• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Feet

• The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Playing
  • Greatness
  • Degree

• We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Hands

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Future
  • Anxiety

• Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Great
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Reading

• All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Christian
  • Military

• I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Culture

• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Desire

• The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Distance
  • Speech
  • Jokes

• I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Distance