Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

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• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Truth
  • English
  • Lies

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Challenges
  • Situation

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Something
  • Irish
  • Remarkable

• For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Present
  • Doing
  • Professional

• I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Character
  • Unusual
  • Inventing

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• I would love to go to the Last Supper and become a fly on the wall to hear what was said and see what went on.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Wall
  • Fly

• I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Eye
  • Goal
  • Unfortunately

• It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change