Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
Quotes to Explore
-
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
-
When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
-
If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
-
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
-
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
-
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
-
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
-
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
-
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
-
From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
-
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
-
The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
-
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
-
Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
-
So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.
-
I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
-
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
-
Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
-
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
-
Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
