Florence Welch Quotes

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine

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• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Ferrari
  • Mercedes
  • Porsche

• The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Enjoy

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Energy
  • Lies
  • inspirational

• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Republican
  • Democrat
  • Nor

• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Me

• If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Admit

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Death
  • Songs

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • War
  • Society
  • Strong

• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Everyone
  • Nuts
  • Be Prepared

• ... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Economic
  • Advantages
  • Sobriety

• The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Hate
  • Teenager
  • Objects

• When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Girl
  • Singing
  • Weird

• I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Make
  • Crowd
  • Teammates

• That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily,—your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Brain
  • Forget
  • Trouble

• You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Forget
  • Group
  • Crowd