Bjork Quotes

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Character

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Will
  • Street

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Kind

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Best

• You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Value

• I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Family

• The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

  

  Jonathan Schell
  • World
  • Hand
  • Waiting

• If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Character
  • Hand

• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  

  Bjork
  • Hand
  • Hunting