Lenny Kravitz Quotes

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

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• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Jazz

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I rode horses since I was a kid.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Kid
  • Horses
  • Since

• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Responsibility
  • Hands

• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Say
  • Mental
  • Cognitive

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • You
  • Know
  • Fifties

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Overweight

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • Mind

• I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • American

• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Power

• Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Help
  • Senior

• That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Song