Alexa Chung Quotes

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Like
  • Dame
  • Nothin

• I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Birthday

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Moment
  • Grow

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Together

• I had a great time with John Duigan; he's pretty amazing.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Care

• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • News
  • Watch
  • Obsessed

• The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Serious
  • Silly

• 'What’s that all about?' Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Question
  • Wife

• I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Heaven
  • Wonder

• Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, and only when packaged to fit the advertising appropriation of a sponsor, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Cinema
  • Craft
  • Procedure

• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Girl

• But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

  

  Plato
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Mysterious

• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  

  Alexa Chung