Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: August 24, 1952

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I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

Andrea Bocelli

HomeMindFrameEuropeEuropean

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Robert McNamara

AchieveProtectNuclear WeaponsWould

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

Steven Millhauser

AdventureStoryThinkYouSheHe

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

Robin Wright

DaySleepRedBetterEnoughLook

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt

GoodDeterminationPowerPeopleOwn

I have my own orchard, and I also work with the Bloomington Community Orchard, which has been one of the best experiences of my life.

Ross Gay

LifeWorkCommunityBestMy Life

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

Martin Sheen

AgeCollegeLooking ForwardForward

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

GreatPastMemoryWorldImportant

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.

Jon Favreau

SuccessGoodDecisionSmartPeople

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

Jonathan Anderson

PhotographyBlack-And-WhiteSomeBits

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Dick Wolf

BeachPeopleMoviesRunSeeUp

When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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