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Jeremy Denk Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.

Jeremy Denk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1970

Topics

Ideas Connections Literature Drawing

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

Max Baucus

Face Important Safe Products Trade

I got my fair share of stick. But I surrounded myself with fabulous girls, and they all loved me because I made them clothes. I remember making them all leopard print tops and tartan skirts for a party we went to once. It's scary to think about it now, actually.

Matthew Williamson

Myself Me Think Loved Remember Now

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Steve Erickson

Memory Reading Process Distance Now

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Wait You Phone Ring Sit Theater

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

Trinny Woodall

Great Day Me Think Fat Look

The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.

Rumaan Alam

Ignore Enough Conversation Privilege

Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.

Marvin Gaye

Spiritual People Small Church Body

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

Michelle Branch

Feel Connected Whatever Out I Feel

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

Jools Holland

Mother Music Time Uncle Blues First

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Jonah Goldberg

Thought Reality Organizing Find Try

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

Bobby Vinton

People Me Play Nothing Audience

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

Ariel Pink

Me Saying Thought Go Always Up