Tina Weymouth Quotes

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

Tina Weymouth

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• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Know
  • Conscience
  • Resistance

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Men
  • City
  • Crazy

• I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • True
  • Dream
  • Winning

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Way
  • Never
  • Strange

• I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • City
  • Courage

• My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • School
  • Father
  • House

• I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest. You know, I'm figuring it out. I did just move to New York, so I have to pay my rent.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Know
  • New York

• Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May

• As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May

• The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Music

• More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.

  

  Kathy Acker

• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Write

• We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Band

• Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • People
  • Different
  • Attitude