Peter Gabriel Quotes

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

Peter Gabriel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 13, 1950

Topics

ConfidencePeopleMeProcessTrying

The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.

Jesse Williams

PowerBlackInterestingYouWhite

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyTruthMomentLookingYear

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

Mayer Hawthorne

DayPracticeMePlayGoBand

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

Anna Kendrick

GirlCharacterPeopleMeThinkPlay

When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

HomeHouseDisasterRebuildRecover

There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.

Sterling Knight

GoodGood PersonPersonNewSkill

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

BusinessMoreDifficultPoliticians

The problem is that the same technological tools we use to thwart terrorists can also be used against the people whose job it is to stop them.

Ronen Bergman

JobPeopleToolsProblemStopSame

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Jonathan Maberry

SciencePoliticsEthicsActionHuman

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

Dean Kamen

FailureYourselfPeopleHurtYouUp

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Christopher Monckton

DoorFaceHouseWantCowardsGore

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Brian Eno

ListeningFeelSomeoneYouSurrender

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