#taking

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#american #american music #band #because #got

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ↗

— Beck

#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#charge #integrated #learning #life #non

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen. ↗

— Amber Benson

#acting #amazing #celluloid #create #dreams

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#ago #around #been #called #coaches

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#any #decision #did #difficult #endeavor

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. ↗

— Traci Bingham

#bathroom #baths #body #candles #hot

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#backing #call #clear #conditions #deposit

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do. ↗

— Geena Davis

#female #female characters #half #kids #planet

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential