Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
Quotes to Explore
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.
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There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.
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My dream was to have a slide bannister so I could slide down and go out the door to work.
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As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
