Judy Garland Quotes

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

Judy Garland

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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
  • Firsts
  • Songwriters

• Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Character
  • Movie

• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Business
  • Father

• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Up
  • Night
  • Air

• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Country
  • Years

• The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring

  

  Okechukwu Ndibe
  • Firsts
  • Months
  • Presidency

• Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.

  

  C. Wagner
  • God
  • Church
  • Spirit

• Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Wells
  • Sticks

• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Children
  • High
  • Dance

• I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Powerful

• If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Small
  • Able

• I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • Needs
  • Able

• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Lost
  • Firsts
  • Flight

• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Liberty
  • Slavery
  • Oppression

• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Simple
  • Knows
  • Feminism

• [Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

  

  T. H. White
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Love Is

• Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Woman
  • Crime
  • Become

• When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Firsts
  • Able
  • Realizing