Brian Molko Quotes

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moments
  • Yourself
  • Ups And Downs

• Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • You
  • Spotlight

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Tough
  • Fighter

• It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Atheist

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Hope
  • Perfect

• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Evil

• 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Proud

• When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.

  

  John Rocha
  • Different
  • Why
  • Dad

• Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Proud
  • Parent
  • States

• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Proud