Vanity Quotes

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
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  • Teenager
  • Going

• I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

  

  Zach Galligan
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  • Love
  • Growing

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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  • Time
  • Music

• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
  • Artist

• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

  

  Natalie Maines
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  • Long
  • Hair

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Theatre
  • Parent

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • America
  • Boy

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Up
  • Believe

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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  • World
  • Trying

• A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Book

• One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Song

• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Inspired
  • Influence
  • Show

• I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • Music
  • Different

• Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Person
  • Movies
  • Twins

• Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

  

  Vanity
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  • Jewelry