Andrew Bird Quotes

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

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WordsI CanSayDeceptionHonest

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

Andre Aciman

LifeLiveMy LifeWishFindDown

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Max Weber

PowerPoliticsInfluenceStriving

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

Matt Lauer

TodayWorldThinkYouLivingTwo

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

ManPeopleWorldPriceAnything

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

John the Apostle

LifeLoveFriendsDownGreaterThan

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

Sufjan Stevens

IdeasListeningThinkAmericanTop

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Tracey Gold

I AmActingAm

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.

Robin Wright

LifeCharacterMeChoicesCareer

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Lou Reed

MusicThoughtNowRightAlwaysArts

I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.

Dionne Bromfield

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

Douglas McGrath

GoodParentsMeSisterRememberHim

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

Christine Baranski

YouHouseTelevisionChoiceTurnTV

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