Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Want
  • Gang

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• There's no sex in Middle Earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Sex
  • Middle

• With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Three

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• I just think Trump's character and some of his values makes him unfit to lead. For someone like him to be president and in charge of our troops? It's scary, to be honest.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Character
  • Trump
  • Scary

• From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • May
  • Feeling

• I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Mean
  • Purpose
  • Crosses

• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • World