Darren Criss Quotes

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • You
  • Body
  • Working

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Work
  • Long
  • Women

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • You
  • Driving

• Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Read

• The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Cool