Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Find

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Child
  • Uncle

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Me
  • Learn

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • Taxes

• Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

  

  Faith Hill
  • You
  • Day
  • Marriage

• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Taken
  • Present

• Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Today
  • Design

• You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Knowing
  • Naked

• Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

  

  Lorde
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