John Newman (John William Peter Newman) Quotes

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• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Belief
  • Horror

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Me

• My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Holiday
  • Jazz

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Know
  • Hate
  • Cold

• If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Paris

• I got to learn to surf.

  

  Sheryl Crow

• As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • People

• I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle school.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • School
  • Dream

• So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Fear

• What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Amazing

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Love
  • Art
  • Past

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• All good art is abstract.

  

  John Newman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Abstract