Shirley Ann Manson Quotes

I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Live
  • Integrity
  • Rebel

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Small

• It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Made

• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Jews
  • Germany
  • Continuing

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• The dearest things I know are what you are.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Know
  • Things

• For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Years
  • Sport
  • Contributed

• There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Sports

• I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

  

  Lee Byung-hun
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

  

  Nick Cannon

• I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Kids
  • Interest
  • Silly