476 private quotes tagged attitude

“The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.” — Big Boi

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“But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.” — Robert McChesney

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“In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.” — Youssou N'Dour

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“Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.” — August Wilson

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“As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.” — Hermann Maier

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“My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.” — Hermann Maier

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“Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.” — Cheryl James

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“I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.” — Peter Mandelson

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“I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.” — E. P. Thompson

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“The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.” — Mick Taylor

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“Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.” — Alex Campbell

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“If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.” — Dar Williams

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“When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.” — John McGahern

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“You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.” — Miranda Richardson

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“People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.” — Salman Khan

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“I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.” — Freddy Adu

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“The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.” — Harrison Birtwistle

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“I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.” — Harrison Birtwistle

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“I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.” — Diane Wakoski

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“My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.” — Gemma Arterton

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“Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.” — Maria Bartiromo

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“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.” — Karl Jaspers

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“I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.” — Todd Tiahrt

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“I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.” — Martina Hingis

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“I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.” — Larisa Oleynik

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