Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

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• So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Night

• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Year
  • Now

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• I originally just wanted to be an artist.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Artist
  • Wanted
  • Just

• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Real
  • You

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Like
  • Always
  • Someone

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Dope

• Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Style

• I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Work
  • Live
  • Fun

• Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Business
  • Father
  • Sports