Notes Quotes - Page 23

• The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues

  Ronald D. Moore

  Issues, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Believe, Cost Of Living

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Sea, Bottles

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Drinking, Laughing

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.13, Bantam

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• Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Police, Watches

  "A Brief Human Anatomy". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1883.

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• Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

  Emily Post

  Writing, Thinking, Awkward

  Emily Post (1965). “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage”

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• Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

  Ray Charles

  Play, Piano, Buckets

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• It's important to note that you don't have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don't.

  Steve Pavlina

  Important, Income, May

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• When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Independence, Republic

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Promise, Gold, Dollars

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• We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Apples, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Symbolism

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.138, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Lying, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Evil, Separation

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.432

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• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Clay, Language

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Want, What You Want

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Vocabulary, Useless

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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• One of the greatest learning experiences I had was hanging out with Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground. There's a woman who has no training and has a very simplistic and very tribal drumming style. I don't even know that she can even do a drum roll, but she's probably my favorite rock drummer because she plays every note perfect.

  Glenn Kotche

  Rocks, Play, Perfect

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

  Glenn Kotche

  People, Needs, Looks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Writing, Character, Mustache

  Source: collider.com

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• There's usually a sense of humor about all of it. It is what it is. I had two characters that were equally detestable, in very different ways, that hit the airwaves, at the same time. It was a very interesting year in my career, in that way. But I have no fear, on that note. I have a new project for HBO, where I'm going to play the good guy. That's going to be fun and exciting, and shift the paradigm a bit.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Fun, Character, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.

  Joe Manganiello

  Kings, Careers, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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