James Maslow Quotes
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
Quotes to Explore
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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You don't find happiness, you make happiness.
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What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
