Cat Stevens Quotes

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

Cat Stevens

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FamilyMusicFaithSpaceMeLearn

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Joe Morgan

Growing UpReachYouDreamGrowing

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

Joe Bonamassa

MusicParentsCollegeListeningNew

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

GodDayYouFallSeventyRise

My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

May-Britt Moser

LoveGoodCoffeeSleepNightStop

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

John Sununu

EnergyBehaviorPoliticalEfficiency

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

Tom Odell

BestI AmFashionAmericaClothes

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

TimeWeirdFeelYouPlaceKind

I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

Mary Lambert

ExperienceSchoolHigh SchoolWish

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Michael Leunig

PowerThinkGreedHypocrisyDriven

What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

Joseph Stiglitz

RestRejectionWillEuropeConsensus

That's the thing: You'll lose your legs, your athleticism, but if you can shoot - definitely from 3 - you can play into your high thirties.

Dell Curry

YouLosePlayLegsHighShoot

I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

Chris Cornell

MusicArtMyselfPlayMatterWrite

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