Kristin Hersh Quotes

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

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• I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Fear
  • Loved
  • Jealousy

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Beautiful
  • Moment
  • Beard

• It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Just Because

• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Fearless

• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Small
  • Creative

• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Waste

• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Science
  • Health
  • Positive

• I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Find

• Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Done
  • Problems
  • Old

• Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

  

  Vanity
  • Fun
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Music
  • Years
  • Lie

• The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Money
  • Beauty
  • Rich

• I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Always
  • Independent
  • Even

• My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Journey

• Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Cold
  • Mountain
  • Waterfall

• I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Starlings
  • Multiplied
  • Central Park

• Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Joy
  • Fulfillment
  • Interiors

• Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Remember
  • Honey
  • Mama

• I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • People
  • Different
  • Stories

• You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Country
  • War
  • Fight

• The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

  

  Kristin Hersh