Liz Phair Quotes
I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
Quotes to Explore
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself.
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I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire - event enthusiasm - for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.
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I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
