Joanna Newsom Quotes

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

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• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • War
  • Car

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Happy
  • Commercial
  • Heroine

• What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Should
  • Popular

• We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Water
  • Blessings

• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Anything
  • Repeat

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Succeed

• Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Question
  • Doing

• I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

  

  John Adams

• When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Within this very myopic perspective, immigrants fill the labor slots that need filling, and those foreign-born workers play no other role in our country’s cultural, political, social, or economic life. Our children’s schools are unaffected, the welfare state is untouched, the balance of political power is unchanged.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • Country
  • Role
  • Immigrants

• The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

  

  Pablo Alvarado
  • Country
  • Immigration

• We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Believe

• I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

  

  Joanna Newsom