Pia Toscano Quotes

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

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• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • Way
  • Just
  • Guess

• What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Long
  • Language

• Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Leadership

• There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Thankful

• Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith

• You have punched this person in the face.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Power
  • Attention

• My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

  

  Mary Beard

• With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Action

• Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Music

• Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • God
  • Charity
  • Gratitude

• The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

  

  Confucius
  • Government
  • Confidence
  • Sufficiency

• Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

  

  George Eliot
  • Winning
  • Coward

• With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.

  

  George Newbern
  • Movie
  • Die

• I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

  

  Pia Toscano