Pete Wentz Quotes

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

Pete Wentz

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LoveMusicTruthPeopleMeThink

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

Jerry Leiber

MusicTimeBluesHimAweGreatest

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

John Battelle

FailurePassionMindSearchBetter

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.

Robert Gottlieb

TrainingSchoolLanguageArmyGenius

Rather than dispute their shortcomings or hide their mistakes, resilient people are authentic. Their humble, self-aware approach assists them in developing strategies to become better.

Amy Morin

HumbleMistakesPeopleBetterHide

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Amity Shlaes

PeoplePerceptionBelieveThinkKind

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

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Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

WorkTimeOverYearsEffectTakes

I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

Lou Ferrigno

WorkGreatMyselfPeopleTrainOut

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad

HomeGoing HomeGoingMustLike

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

TimeBookPowerfulSameWonderful

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

SportsAnalysisParalysisSyndrome

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Winston Churchill

DemocracyPrisonPersonTestNothing

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