Brandon Flowers Quotes

You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

Brandon Flowers

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MusicJobWorldYouI CanGo

When you have your own place, you set your own rules.

Jillionaire

YouRulesPlaceOwnYourSet

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Jill Soloway

DayTogetherPeopleWritingYouOff

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

John Carmack

GameSearchIslandSearch Engine

In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.

Stan Van Gundy

SuccessBusinessWinToughYouLose

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

ProgressIdeasYouComplainingMake

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

Christine Quinn

PerspectiveTalkingYouMouthLook

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

Clayton M. Christensen

BuildingBetterCompeteProfessors

The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.

Cliff Chiang

LifeQualityYouGoNewNeed

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

Allison Pearson

LifePeopleBookSayingBetter

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

MenWordsThoughtsSameDeclare

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

GoodYearPlayChristmasCheerOnce

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

Tim Finn

GreatSongYouWhyWritePop

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