Lesley Gore Quotes

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Lesley Gore

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• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Power
  • Guardian

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Me
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• My memories of events and games are fragmented.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Memories
  • Games
  • Events

• I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Book
  • Vision
  • Discrimination

• A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • Star
  • Design

• It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Small
  • Woman
  • Village

• At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Art

• No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Real
  • Imagination

• The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. This meansNight-blue is an inconstant thing. The seraph Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Universe
  • Thoughts
  • Blue

• Tell me, why do you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else; get's me frustrated. Life's like this: You fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into. Honestly, you promised me I'm never going to find you faking. No, no! No!

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Life
  • Why
  • Fall

• I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Dream

• As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Balance

• Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Action
  • Vehicle

• FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Gypsy

• You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

  

  Lesley Gore