Charles M. Blow Quotes

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Charles M. Blow

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• Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Coach

• There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World

• Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Great
  • Interest
  • Sense

• All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Different
  • Idea

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Filters

• This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Data
  • Hiring
  • Bodes

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• 'Tallica Parking Lot' is, basically, roughly about a four-minute animated short which is centered around the parking lot of Metallica, and that can be anywhere in the world.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • World
  • Metallica
  • Parking

• Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Anger

• They his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Night
  • Paintings
  • Berlin

• Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Passions
  • Voters
  • Elections