Natalie Merchant Quotes

I've raised my daughter with no television.

Natalie Merchant

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• If this be treason, make the most of it!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Make
  • Most
  • Treason

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't like talking to celebrities.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Talking
  • Celebrities

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

  

  La India
  • Women
  • Always
  • Gotta

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Myself
  • Weird
  • Write

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Play
  • Matter
  • Comfortable

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Reach

• My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • World
  • Power
  • Light

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Best

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Truth
  • Drive
  • Truth Is

• I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.

  

  Jason Day
  • Purpose

• Modesty is the highest elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Modesty
  • Elegance

• There are so many things out there now like these 30-minute workouts. I don't know if they work, but a lot of people have jobs and they don't have time to go to the gym. They can do those little 30-minute workouts they see on TV, or get one of those little portable gyms for their house. I think that's a good start.

  

  Andre Reed
  • Jobs
  • Television
  • Gym

• If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

  

  David Mamet

• I've raised my daughter with no television.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Daughter
  • Television
  • Raised