John Grant Quotes

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Body

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • She
  • Mother
  • Kind

• The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Belief
  • Slow

• When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Audience

• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Good
  • America
  • Quality

• But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  

  Jeremiah Wright
  • People
  • Color

• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

  

  John Wooden
  • Up

• Writing songs has a lot to do with your sexuality. I danced for awhile and just being around that made me realize what people use. And if you grow up blessed with a certain beauty or a certain intelligence that enhances your beauty, you can get into a better position in life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

  

  David Friedman
  • People
  • Singing

• When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

  

  John Grant
  • People
  • Gay