Nellie McKay Quotes

If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Film

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Justice

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • You
  • Moments
  • Forever

• I love not only the chubby ones, but also the skinny ones, black hair, the blondes... when I get up the stage, I give myself completely.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Black
  • Hair

• If someone says, 'I love 'Jessica Jones!'' I just say, 'Thanks, I love you back!'

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Thanks

• The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • People

• Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • School
  • Business
  • Kids

• If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • People
  • Earth