A.C. Anderson Quotes

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

We must let go of those things that don’t serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them.

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.

Focus on the solution, not the problem

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I am always the Baywatch girl at heart. The rock 'n' roll got harder and softer but I wouldn't give up those times for anything.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.