John Grant Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
J. R. Moehringer -
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
Taylor Momsen
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti -
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
Viggo Mortensen -
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
T. J. Perkins -
I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
Taylor Swift -
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
Aaron Tveit -
Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
D'Angelo -
Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
Talia Shire -
A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
Kajol
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I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.
Kurt Vile -
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Fellas, if you find a good woman, don't be scared of commitment. It is good for you. It causes you to grow up and deal with your selfishness like nothing else.
Andy Mineo -
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
Dean Young -
I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.
John Grant