Liz Phair Quotes

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Liz Phair

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Know
  • Like
  • Immigrants

• I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • Judge
  • Circumstances

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Handsome

• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Expression
  • Individuality

• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Horse
  • Old

• There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Work
  • Different

• I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

  

  Jess Row
  • Done
  • Political
  • Justice

• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

  

  Liz Phair
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