Allison Joseph Quotes

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Pollution

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Hope

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Country
  • Internet
  • Influence

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Business

• I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Country
  • Money
  • Travel

• I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Farm
  • Beef

• When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Earth

• Lookin' so innocent,I might believe you if I didn't know.Could'a loved you all my life,If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.And you got your share of secrets,And I'm tired of being last to know.And now you're asking me to listen'Cause it's worked each time before.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Creativity

• I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Rejection

• Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • World
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Line
  • Bathroom
  • Hermaphrodite

• 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'

  

  Ian Fleming

• I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

  

  Allison Joseph
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