Max de Pree Quotes

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Song
  • Apology

• We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Past

• He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Power
  • Audience
  • Radio

• When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Walking

• People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Up

• I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Party

• I was really bored in school because I couldn't do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • School
  • Kids
  • Bored

• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Random

• The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Power
  • Dirty

• Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • Food

• If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Blonde

• To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?

  

  John Keats
  • Eyes

• You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Work
  • Art
  • Energy

• Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

  

  Max de Pree