Emilie de Ravin Quotes

I love New York. I've always loved New York.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dad

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Brain
  • Politics

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Friendships
  • Begin
  • Lots

• The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Food
  • Things
  • Need

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Children
  • America
  • Idiots

• I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Experience
  • Thankful
  • Taught

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Victory

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Mind
  • Control

• If I looked like Zayn, I would date myself.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Myself

• I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Government
  • Policy
  • Fortune

• It is beautiful to see two people in a lasting relationship.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Style

• I love New York. I've always loved New York.

  

  Emilie de Ravin