Jessye Norman Quotes
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman
Quotes to Explore
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
Rachel Platten
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
Harold Simmons
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
Sam Wyly
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Sally Jewell
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
I don't drink coffee.
Waris Ahluwalia
I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
Washed Out
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
Kate Atkinson
The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
Naftali Bennett
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson
We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
Karan Mahajan
The facts are on our side.
Karen Hughes
You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Yehuda Berg
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
Damien Chazelle
