Christine McVie Quotes

I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Food

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Future
  • Change

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Together
  • Man

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Away
  • Confident
  • Veterans

• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Without
  • Complexity

• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Open Mind

• Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.

  

  Lawrence Blume
  • Culture

• I went to Lunenburg, when we were filming there, and I was like, 'We can't film anywhere else. This place is perfect. It is 'Haven.' It's absolutely beautiful. That town is eye candy.

  

  Emily Rose
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Candy

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Bisexual

• The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • People

• I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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