Elliott Smith Quotes

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

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• Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Democrats

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Over

• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Win
  • Champion

• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • You
  • Kind

• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Nice

• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Anxiety
  • Publicity

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • People
  • Think
  • Secrets

• 'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Why
  • War
  • Democracy

• Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.

  

  Otto Weininger

• Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Stupid

• That kid sure can bust 'em.

  

  Babe Ruth

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Romantic

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Art
  • Home
  • Leaving

• While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

  

  David Gelernter
  • Worry
  • Internet
  • Computer

• I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

  

  Elliott Smith