Rachel Platten Quotes

I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

  

  Joel McHale
  • People
  • Good

• Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Knows

• I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful