Rachael Yamagata Quotes

People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Stars arrive on their own timetable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Stars
  • Own
  • Arrive

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • People

• In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

  

  Gael Greene
  • Reason
  • Finding
  • Easily

• You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Work
  • Understanding

• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Cat
  • Animals
  • WIld

• People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking