Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Good
  • Long
  • Peace

• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Shoes

• Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Times
  • Seen
  • Oh

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Time
  • Love
  • Hand

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • School
  • Age
  • Heaven

• Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Success
  • Progress
  • Learn

• As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. I don't have to think, What can I do to spice up my marriage? Because as time goes on, she changes, I change. I'm not married to the same girl I met by the pool. I love this woman more than I loved the person I married, but just in a different way.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Painting

• There are always opportunities one cannot pass up.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Up

• As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Painting
  • Teenager