Charles Lloyd Quotes
The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
-
When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
-
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
-
I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
-
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
-
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
-
Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
-
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
-
I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.
-
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
-
There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
-
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
-
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
-
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
-
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
-
I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
-
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.
-
I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.
-
I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
-
I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.
-
Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
-
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
-
I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
-
The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.
