Michelle Williams Quotes

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

Michelle Williams Destiny's Child

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Style
  • Everyone
  • Extremist

• We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Place
  • Take

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Different
  • Man
  • Rest

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Career
  • Write

• It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Learning
  • Whole
  • Aggressive

• As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Myself
  • Journey
  • Start

• I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Want
  • Film
  • Grandma

• My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Childhood
  • Inspiration
  • Poverty

• The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kind
  • Brain
  • Muscle

• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Money
  • Decisions
  • How

• My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Blessing

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gentleman
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable

• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

  

  Jean Genet
  • World
  • Live
  • Universe

• Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mind
  • Fruit
  • Manners

• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Simple
  • Bitter
  • Obedience

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Courage

• I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Simple
  • Jobs
  • Made