Regina Spektor Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

Regina Spektor

• Thinking
• Distance
• Leaving
• Everything
• System
• Accomplish
• Started
• Dust
• Motion

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• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Technology

• I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Strong

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Nothing
  • Negative

• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Universe

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Water

• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law

• My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want - need - money so they could go and gamble again or so they could pay their bills or whatever reason, and try and sell items that were of value to them.

  

  Charles Bock
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World

• Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Situation
  • Peaceful

• When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
  • Picture
  • Surprise

• When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Thinking
  • Communicating
  • Translating

• I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Thinking
  • Distance
  • Leaving