Victoria Legrand Quotes

I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Question

• I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Always

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Real
  • House
  • Political

• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • True
  • Man

• The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Doing

• When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • New York
  • Hug

• You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I liked 'Z Cars' - just hearing the music got me going! 'Coronation Street' was massive in our house. My mum used to say Ena Sharples reminded her of Gran, which she wouldn't have been happy to hear!

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Music
  • She
  • Happy

• I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds.

  

  Martina McBride
  • House

• Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter!

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.

  

  David Crystal
  • Today
  • Past
  • Single

• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • House
  • Girl
  • Coffee