John Cale Quotes

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Alone
  • Learn

• There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Running
  • Stop
  • California

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Start

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Cricket
  • Badminton

• A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  

  Kanye West
  • Writing
  • History
  • Busy

• People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Free

• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Great
  • Woman
  • Better

• When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Work
  • Song
  • Write

• When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Help

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Day
  • Worry

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • World
  • Natural
  • Means

• You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to toast a Pop Tart? A minute and a half if you want it dark? People don't have that kind of time? Listen, if you need to zap-fry your Pop Tarts before you head out the door, you might want to loosen up your schedule.

  

  Brian Regan
  • People
  • Long
  • Kind

• Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'

  

  Alyssa Edwards
  • Anything
  • Celebrate
  • Be Yourself

• My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • Simple
  • Car

• I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

  

  John Cale