Steve Albini Quotes

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Steve Albini

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RandomPictureTryingYouWallNice

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Andrew Zimmern

LifeSoupChoicesStandMy LifeOut

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

Michael Gove

EducationFailureFutureChildren

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.

John Ridley

BookLondonNeverWhereBeenTour

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

Stephen Harper

FocusOpinionStandPartyWillTake

Smart growth is having the courage to say yes and having the courage to say no.

Tom Perez

GrowthCourageSmartSayYesHaving

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

Martina Hingis

GameBetterStrongerMorePhysical

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Mindy Kaling

LoveBookFightingYouWonderShe

If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

Juan Manuel Santos

FutureTimePastAmericaDoubtYou

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

HairSongBetterTryingYouArtist

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

Jon Katz

TimeSimpleAnimalPeopleMeThink

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Christopher Koch

ExperienceMeBookThreeWayNever

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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