David Shrigley Quotes

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

David Shrigley

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• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Just

• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • More
  • Material

• I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • End

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • College
  • Three

• I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Like

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Job
  • Moving
  • Challenges

• I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Girl
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Seeing
  • Behind

• As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Different
  • Political
  • Broken

• People say I am the king of painful shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • King
  • Shoes

• I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fame

• I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Different
  • Something
  • Seems