Andrew Bird Quotes

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Andrew Bird

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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

Andrew Yang

WomenSocietyDriveForwardProblems

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

Robert Gottlieb

HeartStoryMeaningKnowWayText

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Mia Maestro

ParentsYouStreetsBecauseGet

Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

Steve Rushin

SportsTeamThinkAmericanTradition

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Trey Gowdy

TrailNeverQuestionSouth Carolina

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

WorldStartLuxuryYouFindKind

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

Mary Beard

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I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.

Donny Osmond

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I go to ComicCon every year, but it's in a work capacity. I'm a legitimate fan of comics, and I have been since I was 5.

Clark Duke

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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno

MusicTimeStartThinkFurniture

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Bob Kane

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I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

Peter Sis

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