Hanson Quotes

Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.

Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky.

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

God just told me to shut up!

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.