Ian Astbury Quotes

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Music
  • Art

• I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Home
  • Night
  • Fight

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Why
  • Book
  • Fun

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Fashion

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Progress

• Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Children
  • Marriage

• I've been laughing with my brothers about it. Paul and Stephen both won the British title before me, but I'm going to be the first world champion in the family.

  

  Liam Smith
  • World
  • Family
  • Champion

• A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written - Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Great
  • English
  • German

• In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Music
  • Rock

• The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

  

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