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Andrew Bird Quotes

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1973

Topics

Words Meaning More Because Elusive

There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.

Positive Relationship People Color

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Government Democracy Incompatible

If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it for us. We won't get evaluated.

Stewart Butterfield

Hate I Am Engineer Us Going Get

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

Children People Influence Church Way

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

Help Ahead See Clearly Anything Got

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

Done Young Craft Since Hone

It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.

Health Process You Lose True Weight

I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.

Best Training Action Picture Acting

I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

Me Believe Face Say Want Movies

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

People Mind Me Think Up Own

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

Loyalty Turn Heroic Every Dedicated

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.

Family Home People Face Someone Go

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