Erin McKeown Quotes

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Erin McKeown

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Health

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • History
  • Movie

• I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Place
  • Favorite

• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Sad

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Now
  • Kings
  • Fools

• Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Society

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Song
  • Door
  • Finish

• When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Rock
  • Teenager

• I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • Blessed

• I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rhythm