Amy Macdonald Quotes

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

Amy Macdonald

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Want
  • Project

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Wife

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Think
  • Law

• I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Science

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  

  Clarence Darrow

• My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

  

  John Anderson

• That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music

• With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.

  

  Phil Schiller

• We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Music

• Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

  

  Mary Beard

• I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Play
  • Enjoy
  • Theatre

• I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

  

  Amy Macdonald
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Interest