Drew Barrymore Quotes
I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
Quotes to Explore
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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I've had such an odd career.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
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There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
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I've had an unhappy life, thank God.
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I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
