Linda Ronstadt Quotes
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
Quotes to Explore
-
All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
-
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
-
The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
-
Nature is under control but not disturbed.
-
My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
-
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
-
Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
-
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
-
It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
-
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
-
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
-
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
-
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
-
I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
-
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
-
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
-
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I am not a madman or a nut.
-
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
-
Why do half the people I meet try to hit me with something? Yeah, yeah, I know, you don't even have to say it. "Because, the other half don't know me that well yet.
-
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
-
The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
