Brandi Carlile Quotes
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.Brandi Carlile
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman -
I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams -
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
Fedor Emelianenko -
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey -
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
Vera Farmiga -
Kate Moss has great style.
Yigal Azrouël -
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes -
If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
Orison Swett Marden -
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
Babasaheb -
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card -
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank -
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann -
At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
Karl Malone -
I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
Paolo Gentiloni -
Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming 'The French Chef.' And then - that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan.
Kathleen Flinn -
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
Emil Cioran -
I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
Don Rickles -
To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!
David Cohen -
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Brandi Carlile