Saws Quotes - Page 38

• But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

  Warren Zevon

  Hero, Home, Mean

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• Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leader, Gentleman, Luck

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• ...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Men, Two

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.293

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• But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

  George Orwell

  Power, Bombs, Faces

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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• Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.

  Bette Midler

  Song, Beach, Love You

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• Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Fun, Fall

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• I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

  Tom Rush

  Wire, Boulders, Helping

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• I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, 'Hand me that tablet up there.' And he wrote down, 'Hey, good lookin', what you got cookin'' and before we got to Birmingham it was finished.

  Don Helms

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are articulate enough to tell their stories and sincere enough to make depositions before notaries public. Even scientists concede that these folk saw something.

  Morris K. Jessup

  Clouds, People, Majority

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• Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much easier for us to accept a guy with a big white beard hawking his own custom blend of saw palmetto and squirrel dandruff that it is to hear a real doctor telling us to lay off the big macs, and get off our fat asses and take a walk every decade or so.

  Dennis Miller

  Real, Optimistic, White

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Father, Flames

  "Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott".

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• Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties- and this against their own nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Attitude, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical.

  Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

  Anniversary, Found, Identical

  "'Lama'at' ('Divine Flashes')". Poem by Fakhruddin Iraqi,

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• Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Morning, Love You

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2012.

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• When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Fighting, Successful

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Wipe, Scared

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• I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.

  Angelo Dundee

  Simple, Boxing, Guy

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• The greatest fighter I ever saw

  Gene Tunney

  Boxing, Fighter

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• Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

  Ernest Hemingway

  White, Boxing, Chicago

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• People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

  Gene Fullmer

  People, Boxing, Hook

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• I wasn't trying to be different; I just did what I liked. Don't misunderstand when I say I really had no particular DP I was aspiring to be. I really fell in love with the movies as I was growing up, and I must say, I was emulating things that I saw others doing, that’s how you learn, but you soon have to push past that, and do things that you feel are right… or better.

  Gordon Willis

  Growing Up, Past, Trying

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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• What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Opportunity, Giving, Diversity

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• You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Player, Games, Rewards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.

  Ed Figueroa

  Beautiful, People, Alive

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