"When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy."

-- William Orbit

#Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.”
“Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.”
“But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.”
“There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arlene Dickinson from Apr 09, 2016
“They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.”
“I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.”
“I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 186), 1986.

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