Rick Tumlinson Quotes

Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.

Rick Tumlinson

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LifeBirthdayDayBeginningBroken

I'm not a complicated person.

Jessie Ware

ComplicatedPerson

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Jerry Leiber

FireMemoryMeYoungFirstRadio

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

Jennifer Beals

TimeSpaceWaitingYouDressedBig

Some people don't support economic development. There are people in the Assembly who say there is no economic development possible; leave it to the private sector.

Andrew Cuomo

SupportPeopleSayPossibleLeave

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

Steven Adler

GreatWritingFallPlaceKnowing

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond

PeopleUnderstandingWhiteDeserve

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Shirin Ebadi

PeopleDemocracyWillWestJust

I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it.

Robert Wilson

WalkThoughtStandYouNeverSure

Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

Michael Moore

PoliceLawBelieveConstitutionWill

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

Lucy Dacus

GoodMeNightFeel GoodFeelWrite

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

StrengthTodayTomorrowSympathy

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth

WorkGoodPeopleMeThoughtMillion

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