Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• My first concert was 'Nsync.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • First
  • Concert

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Revolution

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Reflection

• Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciate

• Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Giving

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds of girls.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Fun
  • Light
  • Lost

• Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.'

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan

• I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Life
  • Famous

• I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • True
  • Fall
  • Spiritual

• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Happy

• I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.

  

  Amber Heard

• I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

  

  Rupert Friend
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Humans

• I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.

  

  Gayle King
  • Great

• I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

  

  Alice Walton
  • Great
  • Art
  • Balance

• Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • Art
  • Date
  • Expiration