Taylor Momsen Quotes

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Kids
  • Together

• The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Up
  • Win
  • Vote

• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
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  • Play
  • First

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
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  • Fight
  • Army

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art
  • Law
  • Naivety

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Growth

• When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Listening

• I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

  

  Kim Fields
  • People
  • Life

• I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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  • Song