Tom Odell Quotes

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Tom Odell

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• Fighting
• Ideas
• Feels
• Routine
• Normality

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• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • Want
  • Rock

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Alone

• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Up
  • Constitution
  • Physics

• I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Listening

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Religious

• From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Life
  • Security
  • Employees

• The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Know
  • Best

• Just your typical, immodest-dressing, swarthy male-loving, friend-to-homosexuals, ultra-conservative.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Friend

• Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Up

• I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Hope

• Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Food

• My whole thing with the whole weight situation is - it is what it is. It's never been my identity.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • Identity

• I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.

  

  James Veitch
  • Up
  • Lost

• Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Hope

• 'I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood - it is intimate - it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Family
  • Knowledge
  • Hate

• I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

  

  Gayle King
  • Important
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Fighting

• Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Know
  • Glad
  • Naive

• Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Hate
  • Fighting
  • Ideas