Jill Sobule Quotes

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

Jill Sobule

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• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Mexican

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Woman
  • Silence
  • Own

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Talk

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Country
  • Me
  • Liberty

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  

  Mohandas Dewese
  • Live
  • Listening

• It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Long
  • Practice
  • Two

• The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Desire
  • Listening

• People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • People
  • Life
  • Music