Algeria Quotes

When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.
When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.
When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.
With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.
You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.
Buster Keaton is my hero.
Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.
I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.
Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.
Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.
I agree with President Trump that we need good jobs in this country, but let's get to that business rather than the distractions of repealing Obamacare or raiding communities and taking otherwise law-abiding, contributing citizens away from their families.
I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.
I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
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