Flea Quotes

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers

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• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Thought

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Work
  • Job
  • Day

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • World
  • Thanks

• No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Prayer

• As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Words
  • Sex
  • Two

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech