Emily Carr Quotes

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Knows

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Open
  • Dogs

• Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Country

• …the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold
  • Ugly

• 'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She

• When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Style
  • Model
  • Photography

• I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • American
  • Style
  • Trump

• At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• We're all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just hate the tops of them. I work out and they still never look good enough for me. So, over the years I've learned to dress to make myself feel better.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hate

• A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Lifetime
  • Wellness

• The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Player
  • Bass

• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

  

  Emily Carr