Alison Moyet Quotes

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

Alison Moyet

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• I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Mountains

• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Always

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'

  

  Medgar Evers
  • Up

• Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

  

  William Clay Ford, Sr.
  • People
  • Time

• When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Important
  • Live
  • Home

• I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

  

  Howard Bailey Jr.
  • Long
  • Business
  • Kids

• When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Kids