James Broughton Quotes

Acclaim is a distraction.

James Broughton

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• Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

  

  Halsey
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Hope

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Choose
  • Married

• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Talk
  • General
  • Offensive

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Push

• Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Through
  • Cloud

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • People
  • Information
  • Sin

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Tell
  • Please

• I always wish I had a road map for how to navigate my life as a parent and a producer, but in truth, it's a lot of trial and error.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Wish

• The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Words

• The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Freedom

• Rockets, moon shotsSpend it on the have notsMoney, we make it'Fore we see it you take itOh, make you wanna hollerThe way they do my lifeMake me wanna holler.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Moon

• A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Beautiful
  • Sunset

• I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Father

• Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going back several generations.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Long
  • Family
  • Church

• The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Disney

• Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

  

  Alan King
  • Life
  • Why
  • Die

• Acclaim is a distraction.

  

  James Broughton