Alex Chilton Quotes

Being emotional people and being in our 20s, we couldn't see a reconciliation ever happening at that time. It seemed so over. It seemed like the energy in it was completely played out. We didn't want to leave the door open. In pruning it back so viciously we didn't think it would grow again. But here it is growing again.

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Way
  • Support
  • Revolution

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Problems

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Fun

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • View
  • Networking
  • Far Away

• Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • True
  • Dream
  • Winning

• The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • World
  • Way
  • Acting

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Important
  • Energy

• When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • Done
  • Want

• A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

  

  Ben Savage

• When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

  

  Kim Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Relationship

• Being emotional people and being in our 20s, we couldn't see a reconciliation ever happening at that time. It seemed so over. It seemed like the energy in it was completely played out. We didn't want to leave the door open. In pruning it back so viciously we didn't think it would grow again. But here it is growing again.

  

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