Nate Ruess Quotes

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

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• I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Independent

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Financial
  • Weapons
  • Finance

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Study
  • Stand

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Real
  • True
  • Myself

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Home
  • Think

• If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.

  

  Flo Rida
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Conflict
  • Teachers

• I'm a model, but I love to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Model
  • Eat

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Want
  • Exist
  • Entertainment

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Time
  • House
  • Study

• It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

  

  Mary Cheney
  • Daughter
  • Lesbian

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

  

  Dick Van Patten
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• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

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