Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

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• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Culture
  • Students
  • Clothing

• We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Rest
  • Body
  • Enough

• Golf and dating don't mix.

  

  Larry David
  • Golf
  • Dating
  • Mix

• Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Philosophy

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Sex

• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Small

• We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Government
  • Organization
  • Leaving

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Same
  • Talent

• The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Feeling
  • Always
  • Sports

• When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• I constantly look like a miserable bitch.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls

• Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Lies
  • Friendship

• My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space except an Ann.' I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • God
  • Mother
  • House

• In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Sun

• But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

  

  David Prowse
  • Work
  • Green

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Society
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches