Emmylou Harris Quotes

You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.

Emmylou Harris

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Books
  • Ugly
  • Universal

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Thousand

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • War
  • Ugly
  • Civil War

• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mad

• His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Beautiful
  • Dark
  • Ugly

• I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my 'pop-star thing'… so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'...

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • She
  • Sleep
  • Star

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Society

• Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Long
  • Ugly

• He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Important
  • Player
  • Winning

• I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ugly

• I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • People

• In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Up
  • Done
  • Action

• Women always ask me how to get back in shape after having a baby. I always say, 'Know when's the right time for your workout and commit to doing it.'

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Time
  • Women
  • Baby

• Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Rest
  • Should
  • Finished

• Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Question
  • Government
  • Best

• You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Ugly