Bill Withers Quotes
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
Bill Withers
Quotes to Explore
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.
Pat Gillick
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
Mary Quant
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The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
John Naisbitt
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I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.
Alan Taylor
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My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.
Abdellah Taia
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I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
Carolyn Hax
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I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
Bill Withers