Ian Astbury Quotes

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

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• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Experience
  • Compassion

• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Fashion
  • Something
  • Which

• I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Dark
  • Never

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Free

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Man
  • Like

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• In the five years I've been here, this is the biggest game we've had. This one's kind of special.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Game
  • Special

• I hate touch football.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Hate
  • Football

• 'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Work
  • Great
  • War

• Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • American
  • Hope

• I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Crash

• I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
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