Monika Chiang Quotes

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

Monika Chiang

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Human
  • Forget

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Email is the greatest thing.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Thing
  • Greatest
  • E-mail

• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Reason

• When you have a good idea, the money flows.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
  • Money
  • Idea

• It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Growing

• People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • People
  • Way
  • Respect

• But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Up
  • She
  • Death

• Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Age
  • Control

• Mad, Bad, or just prepared to go where others fear to tread? The most controversial author and speaker in the world

  

  David Icke
  • World
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Years
  • Lived
  • Los Angeles

• Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Speak

• There is a definite difference between live shows and the recordings. The recordings are for all time, hopefully, so you do want to bring across layers of subtlety. But the live show is this primal experience that everybody's having at the same time, that the recording can at best try to imitate or duplicate.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Show
  • Layers
  • Recordings

• If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

  

  Monika Chiang
  • Road
  • London
  • Exists