Damien Rice Quotes

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

Damien Rice

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Belief
  • Facts

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Something

• I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Together
  • Boxing

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • She

• I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Good
  • Live
  • Bad

• Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Challenge

• If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Life

• The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself