Carson Kressley (Carson Lee Kressley) Quotes

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Carson Kressley

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Small
  • Progress

• Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Taken

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Night
  • City

• I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Myself
  • Lonely

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • People
  • Government
  • Door

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Never
  • Training

• Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Think
  • Find

• When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Mind
  • Job

• You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • People
  • Know
  • Comedy

• Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

  

  Carrot Top
  • People
  • Home
  • Stage

• I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Place
  • Kitchen
  • Very

• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Proud

• My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Work

• I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

  

  Carson Kressley
  • People
  • Smile
  • Laughing