Liz Phair Quotes

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Liz Phair

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• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Police

• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • American
  • Giving
  • Religious

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Important
  • More
  • Muscles

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Strong
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • People
  • Time
  • Strong

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • You
  • Best

• I want to do anything where people feel I can help make their franchise better and make a contribution.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Help
  • Better

• I do have impossibly high standards.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Standards
  • High Standards

• In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Design

• But censorship by itself doesn’t work. It is, as Mao said, about the pen and the gun.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Work
  • Gun

• The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Law
  • Control
  • Gun

• Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • People
  • Great
  • Fear

• My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Why
  • Always
  • White

• I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • America
  • Strong

• I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

  

  Newt Gingrich

• I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

  

  Peter Wright
  • Painting
  • Outcome
  • Improvisation

• No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

  

  Liz Phair