George Gilfillan Quotes

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Important
  • Soul

• My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Father
  • Two
  • Companion

• What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Today
  • Day
  • Crazy

• My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Fast

• I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Relationship

• I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Think
  • Personality

• I am rather inclined to silence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Silence

• And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Time
  • World
  • Lonely

• Hip-hop music in general kind of revolves around singles, and I appreciate that mindset, but at the same time, I wanted to go beyond that. It's not like I was intending to make a classic record - I mean, I'm always trying to make timeless music, but I really just tried to reference the music that on a road trip you can put in and not have to skip a track.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singles

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beginning
  • Marriage
  • Memories

• If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Genes
  • Mutation
  • Oncology

• Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

  

  George Gilfillan
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