Mike Peters Quotes

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

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• American Cartoonist

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• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth

• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  

  Edward Young

• When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Pretty
  • Decision

• Luck is believing you're lucky.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Luck

• Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Fall

• I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe

• As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • World
  • Risk

• The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Art
  • Death

• If you ask me, I have not really seen any negative side of this industry. I have not met those kinds of people who can change the way I see this industry and make me feel that it's a bad or a dark place.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • People
  • Bad
  • Dark

• I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Christian
  • Rap

• People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People

• As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Experience

• In the concerts I not only played my own songs, but played songs by Dave Sharp. That's my way of keeping the true spirit of the Alarm alive.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Concerts
  • Keeping
  • Alarm

• I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Fashion
  • Model
  • Week

• I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Fashion

• I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney.

  

  Jessica Hecht
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Fake

• Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Stupid

• We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • American Cartoonist