Linda Perry Quotes

I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.

Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Doing
  • Anything
  • Rather

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • You
  • End
  • Afraid

• It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Fun
  • Loss
  • Teammates

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
  • Representing

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Motherhood
  • Pious

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

  

  Allen Klein
  • People
  • Up

• Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Variety
  • Fascinating

• Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • United States
  • White

• I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Leadership

• I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Good
  • Help