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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
‐‐ Gary Burton -
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
‐‐ John Sandford -
Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
‐‐ Yoko Ono -
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
‐‐ John le Carre -
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash -
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson -
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
‐‐ Damien Hirst -
Most people live their life around what other people do.
‐‐ Tom Scholz -
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall -
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
‐‐ Jack Horner -
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
‐‐ Anthony Browne -
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
‐‐ Merton Miller -
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
‐‐ Billy Martin -
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
‐‐ Paul Weller -
Most people need the money all the time.
‐‐ Ridley Scott -
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin -
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch -
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
‐‐ David Viscott -
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy -
Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini or mushrooms, thinly sliced meats like chicken or pork, or thinly sliced fish or squid.
‐‐ Jose Andres -
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren -
Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.
‐‐ Rick Bayan -
Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.
‐‐ Tom Rath -
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.
‐‐ Michael Specter -
Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
‐‐ John Hodgman -
Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
‐‐ Jill Soloway -
Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg -
Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
‐‐ Mason Cooley -
Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
‐‐ Lois Lowry -
Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
‐‐ Colin Hay -
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
‐‐ Josh Billings -
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.
‐‐ April Gornik -
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin -
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh -
Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
‐‐ Mika -
Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem -
Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.
‐‐ Michael Jai White -
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
‐‐ Albert Einstein -
Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.
‐‐ Michelle Trachtenberg -
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
‐‐ Earl King -
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
‐‐ Jason Reitman -
Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
‐‐ John Hall -
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi -
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
‐‐ Anwar Sadat -
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
‐‐ Hank Johnson -
Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
‐‐ Christie Hefner -
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith -
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke -
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
‐‐ Zhang Ziyi
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