Taylor Swift Quotes

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

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• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • True
  • Success
  • Promise

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Pretty

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Nothing
  • Triumph

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • You
  • Chef

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Art
  • Together

• It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Question

• The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn't want to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger or Lou Ferrigno.

  

  Mark McGwire

• Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Think
  • Being