Frida Kahlo Quotes

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Write

• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Career
  • Man

• My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Art

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Career
  • Kind

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • You
  • Kind
  • Always

• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Take

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Done
  • Education

• I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light

• The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Prayer

• The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

  

  Laetitia Pilkington
  • Children
  • Years
  • Fly

• If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Regret

• Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Time
  • Done
  • Picture

• Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

  

  Frida Kahlo
  • Fly