David Longstreth Quotes

A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock - has a value system where truth-telling and authenticity are oppositional with mass media, showbiz, and commerce.

David Longstreth

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MusicValueCollegeGrowing UpMedia

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

Andrea Hirata

BeautyBeautifulMeSceneryIsland

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

John Madden

LegalExcusesYouTelevisionDown

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

Michael Biehn

I AmHatMeThoughtRealEverything

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

John Trudell

GrowLandSomewhereToilOurElse

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Steve Spurrier

LiveOpportunitySmartTeamWinOut

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Trevor Rabin

LivePeopleActionDoingI CanKnow

More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes.

Jonathan Miles

WaterCleaningMoreOverLeftThan

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

Chloe Benjamin

LoveHateThinkTrueStorytelling

It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.

Chrissy Metz

LoveYourselfLove YourselfYouOwn

My first season of 'MasterChef' was tricky. I took a risk going into TV. I was confident it was the right risk and confident I'd break down barriers as the first female judge - and one that was previously only known for the sweeter side of the kitchen.

Christina Tosi

KitchenConfidentJudgeDownRight

I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.

Clay Clark

BusinessMistakeCollegeBookYear

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Bruce Jackson

HistorySurviveLessonNewImportant

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