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

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

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• I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Beautiful
  • Died
  • Her

• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • School
  • Faith

• The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Years
  • Whatever
  • Backstreet

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• 'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • You
  • Shadow
  • Border

• There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Silly

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Libertarian
  • Patriot

• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Difficult

• I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Party
  • Kid
  • Birthday

• I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Think
  • Political

• I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

  

  Wang Shi
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • She
  • Girl

• Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Career

• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Successful

• The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mother
  • Queen
  • New Year

• Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

  

  Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Desires
  • Bigger
  • Incomes

• We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

  

  Lorde
  • Bigger
  • Queen
  • Dreamed