Latvala Quotes & Sayings

I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his compulsive hobby into a profession. If I didn't have my job, I'd be doing almost the same thing for free. — Dick Latvala

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race — Tony Blair

To the last we will have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets, that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished. No one can accept that an imperial has been annihilated by men with bows and arrows and rusty old guns who live in tents and never wash and cannot read or write. And who am I to jeer at life-giving illusions? Is there any better way to pass these last days than in dreaming of a saviour with a sword who will scatter the enemy hosts and forgive us the errors that have been committed by others in our name and grant us a second chance to build our earthly paradise? — J.M. Coetzee

It's kind of hard to find something that will get your juices flowing if you're somewhat critical. I have a hard time finding great things for myself in '94 and certainly in '95. — Dick Latvala

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal. — Dora Musielak

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue. — Dick Latvala

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses. — Dick Latvala

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. — Peter Welch

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now. — Stephenie Meyer

I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance. — Dick Latvala

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while. — Harper Lee

I'm 30, it's Christmas, and I'm a writer without a job. I sit here
engulfed in a furious fit of frustration. My future unknown. My
nuts so small you could fit them in a gnat's navel and have room
left over for my brain. — Josh Mitchell

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again. — Joel Madden

Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough ... I missed a note there ... I'm a half-step off on the turnaround." — Dick Latvala

I don't have an agenda. I don't have things I want to get to or something. I have like a broad, slim grasp of certain periods and certain shows within that period, an awareness of them, but they demand re-listening. I have a flimsy grasp of all the eras and ideas within each period of what would be a good show to think of. — Dick Latvala

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out. — Dick Latvala

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me. — Dick Latvala

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format. — Dick Latvala

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever. — Dave Grohl

The mindset of the people who put the shows on and those who go buy a ticket is so fundamentally different. The band themselves don't have a sense of things, and I found this out after a lot of years of pain and frustration. — Dick Latvala

Don't panic, but there are three bears surrounding me in the barn. — Michele M. Reynolds

Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit. — Eddie Izzard