Pete Wentz Quotes
I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
-
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
-
When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
-
I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
-
We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
-
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
-
Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
-
Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
-
I'm always late.
-
The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
-
I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
-
Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
-
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
-
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
-
I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
-
When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.
-
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
-
The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
-
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-
I moved to L.A. because I didn't want to be in New York anymore. And I knew if I wanted to act, it would have to be in one of those places.
-
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
-
I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
