Miguel Zenon Quotes

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

Miguel Zenon

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• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Friend

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Father
  • Door

• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Years
  • Rich
  • Last

• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Future
  • Lost

• The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Fight
  • Down
  • Ghosts

• Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• Nobody is faster than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Faster

• My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Raising

• My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Day
  • Camera

• I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Myself

• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Up
  • Love
  • Books

• Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I would always want printed books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Want
  • Always
  • Books

• Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Energy
  • Difference

• Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Movie
  • Hell
  • Fortunate

• Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

  

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  • Mother
  • Muggers

• I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • God
  • Religion
  • Interested

• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Different
  • Important
  • Long

• As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Honest
  • Through
  • Represent