Elliott Smith Quotes

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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• I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Know
  • Everything

• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Sick

• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • Try
  • Either

• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Good
  • Period
  • Movies

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Bond

• Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Me
  • Feel
  • See

• Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Beautiful
  • Very

• I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Interest

• If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • She
  • Friend
  • Robot

• I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Leaders
  • Guidance
  • Sepoy

• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Height

• I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • Gentleman

• We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • History
  • Period
  • Stupid

• Alot of people ask me... Where the fuck I've been at the last few years? Shit, I don't know... But I do know I'm back now!

  

  Eminem
  • People

• I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

  

  Brent Weeks
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Humanity

• My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Animal

• Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

  

  Elliott Smith