Damien Rice Quotes

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

Damien Rice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 7, 1973

Topics

WorkGoodBestHabitYourselfDoing

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Ann Voskamp

SoulJoyYouDownThugMore

I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

Simon Rattle

ThinkMoreHimStressedThanMeans

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

Shura

SchoolPeopleWeirdPersonGroup

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

Rosalind Wiseman

NobodyMeanThingsOtherAboutEver

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Russell Brand

MeUpOwnHerOtherReally

The networks are business-oriented cowards.

Mike Farrell

CowardsNetworks

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

Luke James

MotherMeBabyDriveThinkHunger

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to reduce the cost, you're not going to see them implemented unless there is a path of unlimited subsidies, and that's not doable, either. We can kick-start the research process, but we have to do that from a position of economic strength.

Lisa Murkowski

WorkStrengthPathResearchProcess

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

PowerSadBestPeopleWorldNow

Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.

Anne Reid

LifeTalentYouNiceEaseJust

There's so many things that we could do.

Ashley Olsen

ThingsManyCould

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Richard V. Allen

MotherWisdomTearsFreeCountry

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