Nancy Wilson Quotes

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

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• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Just

• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Dream

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Turkey

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Up
  • Question
  • Perfume

• People always give me styling products and stuff.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Stuff

• I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • I Love
  • Guys
  • Favorite

• Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Proud
  • Australians
  • Aussie

• The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Just
  • Fantasy

• I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Why
  • Desire
  • Jesus

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there.

  

  John McCain
  • Trying
  • War
  • Freedom

• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • School
  • City

• The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Adjust