Tom Waits Quotes

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Tom Waits

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SchoolListeningLearnYouWonder

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Maya Angelou

TechnologyQualityManWorldRest

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

John le Carre

RelationshipThinkYouRealTension

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

Tory Burch

BeautifulI AmMeDesignI CanAm

Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders.

Roshni Nadar

TodayTrainingSchoolGoldYouLook

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Miranda Hart

ComedyLineFilmBucketJust One

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

WorkTaxesSystemIncreasingly

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Jon Bon Jovi

FutureRoadLongWorthYouMap

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Jonathan Dee

FeelTalkingYouBadPlaceWant

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Christopher Columbus

MeLearnSpeechInformationIsland

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Allen West

WindBlackThinkNeedOutChanging

The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

Psy

FunnyStylePeopleSingingSongUp

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Peter Snell

GoldWinPotentialCareerLucky

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