Gary Louris Quotes
If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please people and figure out what's going to get me from point A to point B, I fail. But I think if I do what I want to do, in the long run, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, I think it'll pay off and it'll at least feel honest.Gary Louris
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith -
All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
Karin Slaughter -
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
Oscar Isaac -
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha Lyonne
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
Venus Williams -
My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
Lalla Ward -
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
Abbie Hoffman -
Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.
Alastair Reynolds
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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.
Don McLean -
My accent depends on whom I'm around.
Claire Forlani -
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
Keenen Ivory Wayans -
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.
LeAnn Rimes -
The two championship years were that significant for me.
Chuck Daly
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It's all about love.
David Coverdale Whitesnake -
won more than 30, I think. ... He would tell me that, at 19, I was just getting started.
Stevie Wonder -
The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it's with the introduction of modern technologies—turbines, railroads, chainsaws—that humans became a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever did.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
Carole King -
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
Oscar Wilde -
If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please people and figure out what's going to get me from point A to point B, I fail. But I think if I do what I want to do, in the long run, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, I think it'll pay off and it'll at least feel honest.
Gary Louris