Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

Bethany Cosentino

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• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • America
  • Criticism

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Breathe

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Write

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Know
  • Genius
  • Insanity

• Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Writing
  • Military
  • Warrior

• There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Doubt

• It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Important
  • You
  • Know

• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • May
  • Moral

• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi

• When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Picture

• On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

  

  David Hockney

• There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Character
  • Memories
  • Personality

• I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion
  • Interest