Ed Gillespie Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
-
The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
-
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
-
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
-
I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
-
I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
-
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
-
I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
-
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
-
The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
-
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
-
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
-
If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
-
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
-
What other people think of me is none of my business.
-
When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
-
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
-
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
-
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
-
Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in.
-
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
-
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
-
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
