John Hillcoat Quotes

I like to keep a calm set.

John Hillcoat

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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grow

• I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Day
  • Lunch
  • Chicken

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • Caribbean

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Give
  • Theater

• If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Actor

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Gay

• My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fire

• As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time

• The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.

  

  Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Harmony
  • Camera
  • Accomplish

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

  

  David Farr
  • World
  • History
  • Water

• I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I like to keep a calm set.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Calm