Cliff Burton Quotes

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Back

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Discover

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Enough
  • Craft

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Lucky

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones

• I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • America
  • Today

• We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

• Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Country
  • Real
  • Fear

• Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

  

  Carolyn Hart
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Movies