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Donovan Quotes

I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.

Donovan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 10, 1946

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Father Poetry Me Guitar Uncle Know

I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

McG

War Think Picture Means Appropriate

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

John Mott

Life Travel Me Moving World My Life

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Anna Paquin

Life Great Think You Person Try

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

Michael Bloomberg

City World You Streets Here Would

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Simone Weil

Culture Teachers Will More Turn Who

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

Rob Zombie

Music Movies Never Over Made Much

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Martin Rees

Loss Global Warming Human Through

The 'National Suit Drive' collects gently used professional attire, but what it's really collecting is inspiration and a chance for men to feel empowered as they head into their next job interview.

Joseph Abboud

Men Job Drive Chance Feel Head

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Diane Arbus

Life Experience People Born Go Test

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

Diane Lane

Work Negative Gun Week Know Become

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

Politics Voting Country Chicago Duty

Some parts stay with me for weeks afterward. It's these people that I play. They get under my skin, and I just can't let go of them. I have immersed myself into their lives and into their beings so much that they feel like a part of me.

Cloris Leachman

Myself People Me Feel Skin Play