Florence Welch Quotes

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Man
  • Humor

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Experience
  • Humanity
  • Scary

• We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

  

  John McAfee

• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Ideas

• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People

• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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