David Longstreth Quotes

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

David Longstreth

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• I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • God
  • Day

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Fun
  • You

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Great
  • Success

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Public

• I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Kind
  • Seeing
  • Egypt

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Generations
  • Goofy
  • Jumps

• ...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Anger

• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  

  Ouida
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mother

• 'Grateful' is a small word to express my gratitude, as God has blessed me with so many opportunities to restart my life.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Life
  • God
  • Small

• It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

  

  David Longstreth
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song