Maya Rudolph Quotes

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Maya Rudolph

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
  • Chocolate

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Myself
  • Write
  • Down

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Work
  • Always
  • Hard Work

• This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • You

• Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Fan
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Pain
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Like

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Fear

• For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Confidence

• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

  

  John Keats
  • May
  • Hair
  • Wind

• More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Music
  • Business

• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  

  Charles Simmons
  • Men
  • True
  • High

• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I feel like I'm a drag queen.

  

  Maya Rudolph