I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.
Perfume Genius
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My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.
John Darnielle
HopeLawStopBandSoundQuestion
The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'
Michael Franti
GoodMusicSleepMeFeel GoodFeet
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
Steve Carell
YourselfYouPersonProtectProject
To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
Stephen Pagliuca
BusinessPeopleMeInvestmentJobs
I hope my kids learn to put themselves first.
Steve Nash
HopeLearnFirstKidsThemselves
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
Tony Randall
PlayWellLikeNutTapes
I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.
Robbie Williams
TimeEgoDoingTopNeedSame
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
ManGovernmentDemocracyWorthDying
Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.
Mo Ibrahim
NobodyAfricaComeDevelopBehalf
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
GoodTimeWritingEndingReputation
For me, my life is a journey.
Jay Electronica
LifeJourneyMeMy LifeLife Is A
I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
Jason Silva
ChangeFutureLookFastWayChanges
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