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Regina Spektor Quotes

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Regina Spektor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: russian
Birth: February 18, 1980

Topics

Good Music Day You Every Day Want

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

Matthew Desmond

Face American Poor Latino Kids Moms

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

Steven Seagal

Beautiful Time Perfection Man Self

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

Nature Me Growing Up Growing Duty

I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death.

Robert Drew

Death Office Four Made Running He

I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time.

Matt Besser

Time Weird Feel You Place Kind

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Martin Parr

Nature Responsibility Photography You

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Mike Birbiglia

Culture Construction Perception Weird

What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.

Jason Kander

Health Believe Care Country Right

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

Johnny Weir

Women Men King Me Saying Fierce

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

Money People Think You Know Forget

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Colin Quinn

War Ending Talking Violence Say Get

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Brett Eldredge

Music Day Singing You Want First