Donald Fagen Quotes

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Recognize

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Nerdy

• If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Vote
  • Got
  • Pen

• I love Westerns!

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Westerns

• I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Business
  • Genius

• If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Want
  • Search
  • Discovery

• Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Book
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Memory is your image of perfection.

  

  Barbara Kruger

• 'Summon him forth,' instructed the Will. 'Let justice be meted out. There is much to do, you know, Arthur.' 'You'd think we could 'ave a cup of tea and biscuit first,' muttered Suzy.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Justice
  • Tea

• We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Help
  • Relationship

• Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Greed

• Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May

• To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan

• The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.

  

  Katsuhiro Otomo
  • People
  • Excitement
  • Unexpected

• Ah Sin was his name.

  

  Bret Harte

• There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Beauty

• Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Band
  • Risk
  • Possible

• What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan