Alex Turner Quotes

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Trust
  • Care

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Up
  • Father
  • Government

• I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Beginning
  • Exercise
  • Start

• I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Today

• I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Guy
  • Funny

• If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Want
  • You
  • Move

• That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Know
  • English

• In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Time
  • Feminist

• Our hope as analysts and investors is that this is the beginning of a process and not isolated cases.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Hope
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • Time
  • American
  • Law

• The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Time
  • Live
  • Nice