Sara Bareilles Quotes

I say what I think Because it's more economic than drugs or a drink

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• We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Write
  • Had
  • Them

• Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Want

• The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Power
  • Seriously
  • Senate

• Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Years
  • Wall
  • Win

• The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Reason
  • Movies
  • Theater

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• Ride wit me nigga, lemme show you where we kick it at,Where them suckas livin at, and T.I.P. be chillin atRide wit a G, come and ride wit a G,All through the ATL come and ride wit a G

  

  T.I.

• My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you're doing, it's simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos - you don't have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.

  

  Adam West
  • Simple
  • Makeup

• I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

  

  Kim Campbell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Leadership

• Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• I say what I think Because it's more economic than drugs or a drink

  

  Sara Bareilles