Takemiya Keiko Quotes & Sayings

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary individual's pain or joy, but that of a virtual conjoined person? Can we tell that an individual singer might actually represent a collective, that he might have multiple identities? Does that make the sentiments expressed more poetically universal? Dan eliminating some portion of the authorial voice make a piece of music more accessible and the singer more empathetic? — David Byrne

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films. — Eric Darnell

Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am. — Danielle Brooks

If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. — Mitch Hedberg

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation. — Beth Comstock

Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man. — Thomas Lovejoy

Extraordinary levels of misallocated capital, billions of dollars of post-crisis stimulus has simply disappeared into the opaque pockets of Communist Party officials. — Anonymous

I've already proved myself today. I do not want to be greedy; I do not want to be like Eric, terrified of other people's strength. — Veronica Roth

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. — Ridley Scott

Constructiveness is the human way. — Dalai Lama

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us. — John Bright

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw