Florence Welch Quotes

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
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• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Age

• You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • You
  • Integrity
  • Goodness

• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Country
  • True

• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Create
  • Fiction
  • Empathy

• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Lot
  • Gets
  • Cleveland

• So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Alone

• Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Important
  • Art
  • Understanding

• My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Mother
  • Birthday

• I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
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  • Truth
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• Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Men

• You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

  

  Don Bluth

• Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

  

  Phil Schiller

• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Trouble
  • Justification

• Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

  

  Adele
  • She
  • Dream
  • Support

• Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Color
  • Sunset
  • Rainbow

• I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Birthday
  • Hitting
  • Topless