Jon Landau Quotes

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Jon Landau

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ImpossibleRunPersonalWillBand

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeDeepMy LifeBelongingDesire

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

Andrea Bocelli

ChangePeopleMeVoiceLanguageFar

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.

Jeff Koons

MyselfMomentDayPaintingDeep

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Steve Carell

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Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Spike Jonze

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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

Sue Monk Kidd

RacismRememberSummerNeverRacial

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Robert Carlyle

EasyPlaceCanadaUnderstandOver

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Roger Stone

MarriageDayWake UpYouGaySay

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became 'Roddy Piper.'

Roddy Piper

WorldNameYouKnowPlayingJust

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Masayoshi Son

IntelligenceBelieveComputersWill

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

BeginningAngryPeopleUniverseBad

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Douglas Alexander

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