Pete Burns Quotes

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

Pete Burns

• Forever

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Story

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Freedom
  • Destroying
  • Creeds

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • She
  • Proud

• We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Goal
  • Values

• The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Art
  • Question
  • Cool

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Food
  • Working
  • Workout

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Priority

• My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Rose
  • Fair
  • Striving

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

  

  Ellie Kemper

• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Novels
  • Writes
  • Scholar

• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • World

• In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or a group, would be attacking another group and would be enslaving all the women of that group.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Women
  • War
  • Groups

• It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Forever