Bonnie McKee Quotes

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• We should all love animals.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Love
  • Should
  • Animals

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Father
  • Name

• In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • America
  • Body
  • Settle

• I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Know
  • Down

• The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• 'The cap'n is Wolf Larsen, or so men call him. I never heard his other name. But you better speak soft with him. He is mad this morning. The mate-' But he did not finish. The cook had glided in.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Morning
  • Mad

• Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Future
  • Today

• My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dad
  • Weird

• I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Women
  • Heart

• Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Passion
  • Purpose

• I have got a lot of respect for Arsene Wenger but, reluctantly, I am in the 'Wenger Out' campaign.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Respect

• I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Women

• Television wasn't prestigious.

  

  Dorothy Malone

• The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Care
  • Yoga
  • Moved

• When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

  

  Bonnie McKee