Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Moving

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Famous

• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Sophisticated

• If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Songwriting

• My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Family
  • City

• It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Want
  • Style
  • Aesthetic

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Strong

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Loved
  • Strength

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• What's important to me is people just being people.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writer
  • Favorite
  • John

• You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • You
  • Majority

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Always
  • Principle
  • Useful

• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Health
  • Diet

• I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I'd really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Live
  • Fashion

• Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's not the having, it's the getting.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor