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April 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Musician, N Comments Off

Nuno Bettencourt

When you are in this business and this career, it’s hard for any one thing to engulf you.
Nuno Bettencourt

I think I’m a music fan before anything else.
Nuno Bettencourt

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it’s got green in it. I don’t know what the hell that was about.
Nuno Bettencourt

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
Nuno Bettencourt

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
Nuno Bettencourt

I am affected by what is around. I don’t think many people would admit that.
Nuno Bettencourt

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.
Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There’s a lot of older influences, but there’s also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
Nuno Bettencourt

I always imagine later on these songs I could’ve played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
Nuno Bettencourt

Obviously the biggest change is that it’s me by myself. When you don’t have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it’s bound to sound different.
Nuno Bettencourt

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can’t wait to go, but you don’t want to leave.
Nuno Bettencourt

It’s hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I’m in the studio and I write it. and that’s it.
Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
Nuno Bettencourt

Even with Extreme, I don’t think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
Nuno Bettencourt

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
Nuno Bettencourt

It’s just a bunch of songs. I’m not trying to cure any major disease.
Nuno Bettencourt

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
Nuno Bettencourt

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn’t at this point want Nuno to open for them.
Nuno Bettencourt

There’s two facets to writing a song. There’s you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there’s the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
Nuno Bettencourt

April 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, N, Physicist No Comments »

Niels Bohr

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
Niels Bohr

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr

April 1st, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, N No Comments »

Neil Bogart

If you hype something and it succeeds, you’re a genius – it wasn’t a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart

February 8th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Celebrity, N No Comments »

Nina Blackwood

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
Nina Blackwood

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Nina Blackwood

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
Nina Blackwood

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina Blackwood

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
Nina Blackwood

Now that the 90′s are over and more time has gone by, the 80′s sound fresh again.
Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
Nina Blackwood

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Nina Blackwood

Absolute 80′s is three hours of mainstream 80′s music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70′s to the 90′s.
Nina Blackwood

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.
Nina Blackwood

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.
Nina Blackwood

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.
Nina Blackwood

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
Nina Blackwood

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people’s stories.
Nina Blackwood

The heyday of video music was the mid 80′s.
Nina Blackwood

When you are young your imagination is so clear.
Nina Blackwood

I am like the little rock n’ roll backseat driver.
Nina Blackwood

I’m a little bit to the left of things anyway.
Nina Blackwood

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney’s press conference.
Nina Blackwood

January 27th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, N No Comments »

Nellie Bly

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly

How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly – a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God’s creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.
Nellie Bly

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Nellie Bly

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Nellie Bly

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
Nellie Bly

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.
Nellie Bly

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God’s sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
Nellie Bly

January 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, N, Poet No Comments »

Nicolas Boileau

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Nicolas Boileau

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Nicolas Boileau

 

June 25th, 2011 Author, Author Types, Authors, N No Comments »

Nicolas Bentley

He followed in his father’s footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Nicolas Bentley

June 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, N, Philosopher No Comments »

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev

June 16th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, N No Comments »

Ned Beatty

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
Ned Beatty

I’m getting grumpier all the time.
Ned Beatty

I’ve had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don’t call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I’m a Type 2.
Ned Beatty

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
Ned Beatty

I only really work when I want to.
Ned Beatty

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Ned Beatty

I’m blessed with eight children – though I’m talking about eight adults now.
Ned Beatty

I’ll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
Ned Beatty

I’m a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I’m really good at it.
Ned Beatty

March 31st, 2011 Author, Author Types, Authors, N No Comments »

Natalie Clifford Barney

Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney

To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney

With renunciation life begins.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney