Courtney Barnett Quotes

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

Courtney Barnett

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LoveSongYouFirstExistEven

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.

Matthew Davis

CharacterMindPotentialHandsYou

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Michael Tilson Thomas

WorkMusicTrustMeAmericanYear

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

WisdomCultureMeVanityKnowGoing

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleEnjoyComplainThingsLike

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

Janet Yellen

ShadowMaturityTransformationNeed

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

Dick Schaap

CharacterRockyCertainlyWorked

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

Dick Van Patten

FamilyHomeManMeLongCareer

As we say, finals are not to play them, they are to win them.

Diego Costa

WinPlaySayThemFinals

I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work.

Deborah Joy Winans

WorkLoveEnjoyCallWorkingGet

I want Violet to be proud of every little thing that is her - her hair, her body. We're all different, and from early on, I've always said she has a very confident personality, and I want her to maintain that.

Christina Milian

PersonalityHairProudConfidentShe

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

Sean Parker

FreeStoryEndInterestingWealth

Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.

Martin Jacques

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