"I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist."

-- Zachary Cole Smith

#Taken Quotes #Records Quotes #Perfectionist Quotes

“It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.”
“My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.”

Source : "Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.
“It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.”
“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.”

Source : "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July 2003.
“I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than mere concepts in a gallery or photographic documentation, or any of the paraphernalia that can be used to indicate that. The art was on the land.”
“Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.”
“And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

Source : "House Republicans promise Taliban insurgent tactics, blame Pelosi" by Johanna Neuman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 5, 2009.
“Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.”

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