Exene Cervenka Quotes

Never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.

Exene Cervenka

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Way
  • Care

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
  • Places

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Mother

• I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

  

  James Sanborn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Science

• They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Art

• I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Game
  • Career

• When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

  

  Derrick Rose

• I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

  

  Perry Chen
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Movie

• To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Time
  • History
  • Honor

• I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time of love, a time of hate A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Peace

• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Miracle

• With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.

  

  Dave Gibbons

• Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Insurance

• Never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.

  

  Exene Cervenka
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Amen