Carolyn Mahaney Quotes

Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.

Carolyn Mahaney

• God
• Gift
• Emotions
• Return
• Stifling

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Government

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sometimes
  • Worry
  • Start

• I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Color

• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • High
  • Horse

• And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking

• People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • People
  • Different

• I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Person
  • Competitive
  • Comparing

• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Wisdom
  • Sign
  • Cheerfulness

• When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among:-God grant you find one face there,You loved when all was young.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • World
  • God
  • Home

• Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • God
  • Gift
  • Emotions