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

• 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

• 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 try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Food
  • Practice

• Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Different
  • Challenge

• One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

  

  Danny Glover
  • World
  • Country
  • Violence

• If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Lost
  • Star

• You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • Work
  • Mad

• Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Speak
  • Ends

• No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

  

  David Hume
  • World

• No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Great
  • Tennis

• 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
  • World
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