Pete Yorn Quotes

I know you never wanted it this way. I can see, I can see.

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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Marriage
  • Trouble
  • Others

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Focus

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Difficult
  • Realize
  • Governor

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Right
  • OK

• I can't play a character that I am judging.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judging

• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Time
  • Home
  • Needs

• In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Power
  • Action
  • Effective

• It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Better

• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Cancer
  • Price
  • Move

• I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

  

  Gallagher
  • World
  • Problem
  • Prejudice

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Vision

• Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

  

  Mickey Drexler
  • Single
  • Everyday
  • Curiosity

• I know you never wanted it this way. I can see, I can see.

  

  Pete Yorn
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