FastSaying

It's the music of my youth. It's the music I grew up with. It's the music of my dreams.


Hugh Hefner

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.
KANYE WEST I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an account...
ZARIN MEHTA The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
WYNTON MARSALIS Conjunto is like Texas mariachi music, ... Its the traditional and dance music of our culture.
BOBBY PULIDO I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my ...
LUCY LARCOM There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't chase my dreams in music. Music is my reality.
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
KARL LAGERFELD The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of ...
JAMES GATES PERCIVAL We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, g...
QUAVO Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES GEORGE DE MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLE Music for me would have been a Religion. If there was anything I would worship after God and My Pare...
OLASOT My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and tryi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and tryi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOW I have a great faith in every generation's ability to come up with its own music.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Apple is leading the digital music revolution, but at its core, it's all about the music,
STEVE JOBS My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sou...
PAUL TWITCHELL I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
DAVID SANBORN I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel tha...
YO-YO MA Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.
T.L. RESE In order to stay with the roots of Irish music -- it's kind of like classical music -- you need to s...
GARY BURMAN It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
BRUCE DICKINSON Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the onl...
RANDY JACKSON My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you be...
JOHN COLTRANE The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on e...
CORMAC MCCARTHY In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash....
ADAM HICKS My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gyps...
CYRILLE AIMEE Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano...
BRIA SKONBERG Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will su...
GERARD WAY The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal ch...
HELEN VENDLER I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing s...
DAVID LOWERY There is a lot of really creative music taking its departure point from chamber music or classical m...
BRYCE DESSNER Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my mu...
CHARLI XCX The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a ...
ETHAN COEN Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
BRUCE DICKINSON The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I w...
JIMI HENDRIX I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
TAMMIN SURSOK Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
PLATO I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ...
YOLANDA ADAMS My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li...
LUKE BRYAN What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion and understated erotica that popul...
LARA ST. JOHN I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Mus...
BAHMAN GHOBADI All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tr...
ERIK HASSLE Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s...
DAVID BYRNE The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird, Heard in the still night, with its passio...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.
KEITH RICHARDS Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
ANDRE MALRAUX Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only
ANDRE MALRAUX We say that Apple Computer has been using the Apple mark in connection with musical content. It uses...
GEOFFREY VOS I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
GYORGY LIGETI What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept...
ROBERT BROWNING One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is ...
ERIC BURDON And I...drown myself in the music. Not to mask the pain, but to lose it. I don't really care what yo...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has b...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get marri...
WYNONNA JUDD Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN Love is like music...its combinations are so infinite yet a lifetime cannot exhaust its possibilitie...
UNKNOWN Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Mu...
BRUNO WALTER I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
RODNEY ATKINS it is straight out of its time, from the rock music to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment.
OSKAR EUSTIS I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Everything has its roots in blues. I don?t care what kind of music it is.
ERIC ESSEX Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
HALEY REINHART American music has touched everyone's lives throughout its short history,
HILARY ROSEN I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and mu...
ANTHONY BRAXTON Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite...
BLAKE SHELTON With the Beethoven sonata project, the emphasis was principally on the music, although Schnabel was ...
CHARLES ROSEN I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things ...
SAM HUNT

More Hugh Hefner

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
HUGH HEFNER Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro...
HUGH HEFNER It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
HUGH HEFNER My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, w...
HUGH HEFNER I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and ...
HUGH HEFNER Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
HUGH HEFNER I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are bu...
HUGH HEFNER The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life wa...
HUGH HEFNER Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al...
HUGH HEFNER I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
HUGH HEFNER I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, qu...
HUGH HEFNER When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memo...
HUGH HEFNER Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
HUGH HEFNER The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantas...
HUGH HEFNER My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - bu...
HUGH HEFNER I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
HUGH HEFNER My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
HUGH HEFNER Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
HUGH HEFNER You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
HUGH HEFNER I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
HUGH HEFNER Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is,...
HUGH HEFNER The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was ne...
HUGH HEFNER You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.
HUGH HEFNER The big surprise for me is that age is just a number, ... It's a number without meaning. A person wh...
HUGH HEFNER The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex
HUGH HEFNER Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
HUGH HEFNER It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
HUGH HEFNER I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films ...
HUGH HEFNER I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form...
HUGH HEFNER If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
HUGH HEFNER I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the worl...
HUGH HEFNER The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out w...
HUGH HEFNER Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what ...
HUGH HEFNER Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
HUGH HEFNER I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
CHRISTIE HEFNER I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my o...
CHRISTIE HEFNER No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
CHRISTIE HEFNER From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrappin...
CHRISTIE HEFNER My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
CHRISTIE HEFNER But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prom...
CHRISTIE HEFNER I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
CHRISTIE HEFNER Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instinc...
CHRISTIE HEFNER Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficul...
CHRISTIE HEFNER The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft.
CHRISTIE HEFNER provide additional advertising sales opportunities as we are able to meet the growing demand of comp...
CHRISTIE HEFNER Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital m...
CHRISTIE HEFNER We believe the sale of a minority piece of this business to the public will create the currency need...
CHRISTIE HEFNER I think we're all cognizant of the fact that there are two macro trends going on here that this prod...
CHRISTIE HEFNER We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offeri...
CHRISTIE HEFNER Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digit...
CHRISTIE HEFNER Playboy strategically selected the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas to debut our first U.S. store...
CHRISTIE HEFNER I think we're all cognizant of the fact that there are two macro trends going on here that this prod...
CHRISTIE HEFNER I think we're all cognizant of the fact that there are two macro trends going on here that this prod...
CHRISTIE HEFNER In online, which skews to a young demographic, we've seen strong growth in our subscription and e-co...
CHRISTIE HEFNER At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dr...
CHRISTIE HEFNER In online, which skews to a young demographic, we've seen strong growth in our subscription and e-co...
CHRISTIE HEFNER The magazine publishing industry owes John a debt. And I think the best way to repay that debt is to...
CHRISTIE HEFNER One is more and more consumers are getting information and entertainment online and the other is mor...
CHRISTIE HEFNER She no longer has a staple in her navel.
CHRISTIE HEFNER We believe that section 505 is unconstitutional for the same reasons that the Supreme Court found th...
CHRISTIE HEFNER We see this is a natural extension of the Playboy brand,
CHRISTIE HEFNER We knew this was going to be a challenging year in publishing, as it was for the industry.
CHRISTIE HEFNER It gives no more choice or control to parents, but it takes away the choice of millions of adults wh...
CHRISTIE HEFNER Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
CHRISTIE HEFNER Even though we're getting high-paying jobs to the state, they're not employing as many people as the...
FRANK HEFNER Economic development now is struggling to find its way. More of the same is not going to work becaus...
FRANK HEFNER If you don't have the fertilizer and don't have the seed, I can tell you what, none of it will happe...
FRANK HEFNER We have a research triangle park in South Carolina. We have three major research universities, that ...
FRANK HEFNER We need to put it to rest. We need to address the inequities and we need to take care of it before t...
MIKE HEFNER Memang, seperti di Indonesia, daripada dilemparkan ke dalam keranjang sampah sejarah, ketidaksetaraa...
ROBERT W. HEFNER I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ...
HUGH JACKMAN There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;...
HUGH JACKMAN I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It d...
HUGH JACKMAN I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and reali...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a loner at all.
HUGH JACKMAN In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy...
HUGH JACKMAN Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
HUGH JACKMAN With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of...
HUGH JACKMAN Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
HUGH JACKMAN My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I t...
HUGH JACKMAN To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
HUGH JACKMAN I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i...
HUGH JACKMAN To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
HUGH JACKMAN It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the upri...
HUGH MASEKELA History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs....
HUGH EVANS I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT Love expands.
HUGH PRATHER Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen...
HUGH EVANS I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
HUGH PRATHER There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...
HUGH DOWNS If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR Beauty is whatever gives joy.
HUGH NIBLEY Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets...
HUGH JACKMAN I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w...
HUGH JACKMAN If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It g...
HUGH JACKMAN To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people pre...
HUGH MACKAY The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser...
HUGH MACKAY The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal litera...
HUGH MACKAY Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familia...
HUGH MACKAY I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people...
HUGH MACKAY It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
HUGH MACKAY The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour ...
HUGH MACKAY Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that c...
HUGH MACKAY Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to em...
HUGH MACKAY Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava...
HUGH MACKAY No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some...
HUGH MACKAY Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
HUGH MACKAY One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling ...
HUGH MACKAY So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
HUGH MACKAY When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's ...
HUGH JACKMAN Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON