Pete Yorn Quotes

Hey don't lock and turn away lose your life today and follow me into the alleyway.

Pete Yorn

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• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Parents
  • Christmas
  • Year

• You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • You
  • Last
  • Predict

• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Tears
  • More
  • Over

• I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Children
  • Right

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • You
  • Horse
  • Had

• I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Injuries

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Action

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Technology
  • Car

• Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Done
  • Energy

• The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for every medium. They're very active on social media; they're releasing videos every day up to the premiere.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Up
  • Team
  • Marketing

• For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids

• There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Hey don't lock and turn away lose your life today and follow me into the alleyway.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Follow