Natalie Maines Quotes

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

Natalie Maines

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Water
  • Green

• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Book
  • Me
  • Childhood

• We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sports
  • Learn
  • Win

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Society

• Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Integrity
  • Witty

• People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • People
  • Alone

• Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

  

  Leslie Dewan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Scary

• An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Important
  • Women
  • Job

• I was made for action movies.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Action
  • Movies

• I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Past
  • Pride
  • Hype

• I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Time
  • Sacrifice

• The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be doing in Disney World, will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow. We call it EPCOT.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Important
  • Heart

• Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Forgive
  • Preparing

• I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Humans
  • I Believe
  • Circumstance

• Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Really
  • Because
  • Going

• I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Married
  • Disappointed

• If I didn't have a wife, maybe I can say, 'Yeah, I'm disappointed I'm not maybe good looking.' ... I don't know about China, but in Russia, I still look good.

  

  Nikolay Davydenko
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Looks

• I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.

  

  Carolina Kluft
  • Trying
  • Disappointed

• I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Disappointed
  • Bar
  • Low