Beth Gibbons Quotes

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

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• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Fool

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Important
  • Education
  • Health

• I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Friends
  • Change
  • Blessed

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Leadership

• I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Love
  • Jazz
  • Grew

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Business
  • Father
  • Man

• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Look

• We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Love
  • Fall

• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  

  Origen
  • May
  • House
  • Strong

• I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Kids
  • Exercise
  • Talk

• No study is possible on the battlefield.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Study
  • Possible
  • Battlefield

• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People

• To show you how cosmically irrelevant the Warren Report is for the most part … one of the exhibits is classified in the front as, 'A Study of the Teeth of Jack Ruby's Mother.' Even if Jack Ruby had intended to bite Oswald to death, that still would not have been relevant.

  

  Jim Garrison
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Study

• I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

  

  Chi McBride
  • People
  • Wish

• Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

  

  Al Michaels
  • December

• As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • True
  • Small
  • Audience

• For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

  

  Nathan Oliveira
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead