Ann Wilson Quotes

Bands are always told, 'Nobody wants to hear your new stuff - just stick with the meat and potatoes - that's what people come for.' That's only half-true. I know if I went to see U2, I would be thrilled if they did 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' but I'm equally as thrilled to hear their new stuff.

Ann Wilson

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PeopleLookingNobodyNewKnowMeat

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, 'You don't know anything.' Because everyone, when they're young, they think they know what's going on in the world, and you don't.

Jocko Willink

WorldThinkSelfYouBackYoung

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Jennifer Gilmore

KnowledgeExperienceTryingSometimes

I had been watching the Emmys since I was probably 5 years old. Those shows, when you're a kid, it all seems like such a big, big deal, and only special certain people would win one of these big things like a Tony or an Emmy or an Oscar.

Megan Mullally

PeopleWinYouSpecialWatchingKid

If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.

John Schnatter

PeopleCareTake CareDoingYou

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

Stephen Kinzer

LongNowCaptureMilitaryIstanbul

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.

Tracy Morgan

LifeFunnyGodMeGiftBeen

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

AmericanYouLostHollywoodBecome

Staying in Vegas would've been too easy for me.

Rutina Wesley

MeEasyVegasBeenStayingToo

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Jonathan King

PeopleMeVoiceThinkKnowImage

With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.

Jonathan Zittrain

WritingRiseEngineersNewSoftware

In the movie 'Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,' I'm a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that - somebody who's totally unscrupulous. It's like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.

Christopher Lloyd

CompassionEvilFeelBadApology

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

PeopleThinkingMechanicalImagine

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