Genevieve Behrend Quotes

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

Genevieve Behrend

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Period
  • State

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Peace
  • Positive

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • City
  • Amazing

• At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • Wanna
  • Kurt Cobain

• I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Black
  • Start
  • Black-and-white

• With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Look

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Value
  • Cell Phones

• Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Play
  • New
  • Motion

• Good people can disagree.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Color
  • Sunset
  • Rainbow

• Did I want Britain to remain in the E.U.? Yes. Did I fear the consequences if we quit? Yes. Did I argue passionately for that during the referendum? Absolutely I did.

  

  George Osborne
  • Fear

• If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Ocean

• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Music
  • Feeling

• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

  

  Genevieve Behrend
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Everything