Christine and the Queens (Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier) Quotes

Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.

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• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Eye

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Day
  • End

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Friends
  • Liberty
  • Had

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • Disrespect

• We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Everything
  • Furniture
  • Toys

• I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Thinking
  • Saying
  • Smiling

• Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Today
  • Man
  • Learning

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • American
  • Things
  • Tell

• Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Grow

• The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Age
  • Day

• The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Truth
  • President

• When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Together
  • Wealth

• The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • Up
  • Work
  • Age

• Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Way
  • Jobs
  • Poet

• Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.

  

  Christine and the Queens
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  • Dancing