Tobias Jesso, Jr. Quotes

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

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LearningBestMistakesChoicesKey

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

Robert Lepage

CompassionPeopleThinkSomeonePlay

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Alvin Dark

BusinessManagerCheersHear

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Steve McFadden

TheatreToolsSkillsSameWhatever

I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.

Roger Ailes

OrganizationCitizenshipCreateRun

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Mary Ritter Beard

TravelSurpriseNobodyGoMeetUs

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

SimpleVirtueFirmModestEnduring

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

Ali Krieger

LoveFatherSportsMeSoccerPlay

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

Thomas Friedman

BestTalentPeopleCollegeTools

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

Nomar Garciaparra

GreatPeopleEnjoyPlayFansWatch

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Lyle Lovett

WorkLoveMyselfYouSayNever

It's like I had two things pulling at me: you want to be a fighter, and you have problems. So I couldn't be a fighter, and I wasn't solving any problems.

Gerry Cooney

MeProblemsYouWantFighterTwo

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

David Bonior

DecadeOverComplianceLivedChina

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