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

• 'Instagram' doesn't exist in a vacuum. We're not a bunch of siloed individuals. It's a bunch of people coming together on topics, fashion, you know, youthful teens, creatives, photographers, foodies, everyone coming together and building a community around the things they love, communicating visually.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Language

• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Men
  • Power
  • Simple

• I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Family
  • Heart

• I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that actresses can deliver a hit film. We deserve better pay, equal to what actors get.

  

  Aditi Rao Hydari
  • Pay
  • Equal
  • MAle

• 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