Christine and the Queens (Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier) Quotes

For me, everything is a performance.

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• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Too Much

• Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Years
  • Interest

• For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • House
  • Attention

• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Books
  • Designer

• People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Simple
  • Tired

• Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Day
  • Like
  • Queen

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Mom
  • New
  • Times Square

• When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Running
  • See
  • Working

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Age
  • Me
  • Saying

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Everything

• I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Time
  • She
  • Crazy

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Economy
  • I Believe
  • Destroying

• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Sleep

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Performance

• No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • May
  • Together

• For me, everything is a performance.

  

  Christine and the Queens
  • Everything
  • Performance