Kate Tempest Quotes

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Kate Tempest

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Star
  • Look
  • Blockbuster

• I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Songwriting

• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Right

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Culture
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Die
  • Distance

• The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Voices
  • Phrase

• Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Rose

• Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Family
  • Poetry

• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Great
  • Political
  • Simple

• There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Water
  • Dark
  • Sun

• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  

  William Finnegan
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Water
  • Feels
  • Alive