Darren Hayes Quotes

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • School
  • Child

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Environment
  • Green

• Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Judge

• In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Different
  • Universe
  • Bigger

• I've been on the road since 1967.

  

  Jimmie Walker
  • Road

• Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

  

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