Laurie Helgoe Quotes

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Laurie Helgoe

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• Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Legacy
  • Missed
  • New Years

• I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • History
  • Albums

• I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Doing

• If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Believe
  • Fashion
  • Details

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • You
  • Serious
  • Witty

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Army
  • Chicago
  • Special

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Done
  • Act
  • Skills

• Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Gift

• To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy
  • Try
  • Run

• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Audience
  • Member
  • Blockbuster

• I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Important
  • Cool

• With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • Writing
  • Live

• Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Death
  • Americans
  • Corruption

• I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

  

  Laurie Helgoe