Kerry King Quotes

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

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• I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Powerful
  • Better
  • Acting

• If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Look

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Dress

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Think
  • Party
  • Tool

• I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Life
  • Money
  • Alone

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• I don't do ski racing to be famous.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Famous
  • Racing
  • Ski

• Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Forget
  • Will
  • Sides

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• The things that always seem to work are the things that any magician can duplicate. Randi's quite right to point that out. But that's not because I'm doing a conjuring trick. You'd think that whatever causes these things to happen doesn't want them to be proved.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Work

• Ignobly vain, and impotently great.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Great

• We only have problems we really want to have.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

• A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • World
  • Money
  • Why

• When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. Chagall stated this in 1950

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Parents

• You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

  

  John Lasseter

• The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • History
  • Path
  • Mountain

• Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovation
  • Capitalism
  • Shortfalls

• The greatest threat of all to their identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge, lumbering creatures and destroying any last small hope that any horse tribe could ever be restored to its traditional life. There was no such thing as a horse Indian without a buffalo herd. Such an Indian had no identity at all.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Life
  • Men
  • America

• One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Secrets
  • Possession
  • Passions

• Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

  

  Kerry King Slayer