Twinkle Khanna Quotes

I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.

  

  J Balvin

• I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.

  

  Alexa Chung

• Cricket is my first love.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Love
  • Cricket
  • First Love

• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Universe
  • Greatness
  • Sunshine

• I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • World