Natalie Maines Quotes

I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

Natalie Maines

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Brand
  • Lovely
  • Even

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Crazy
  • Meat
  • Call

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Market
  • Million
  • Sell

• Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Happiness

• In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you? I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t un-Mexicanize me, Ari.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Transition
  • Mexican Mother
  • Educated Woman

• I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Children
  • Happy