Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Great
  • Father
  • Game

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Me

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Doing

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Positive

• The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

  

  Babyface
  • Love
  • Song
  • Falling In Love

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• Just so many special moments that make you feel incredibly fortunate and grateful to be able to have healthy, beautiful kids. And I'm sure the emotions will continue to change over time, and as I get older, I'll probably want to yell and scream at them.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • World
  • House

• I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Picture

• I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Door
  • Feminist