Lorne Michaels Quotes

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Lorne Michaels

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• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Big

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Looks
  • Concrete

• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Looks

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Long
  • Looks
  • Hands

• I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Women
  • Age
  • Body

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Power
  • Persons

• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Rock

• Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Persons

• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Leader

• I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Want
  • Feels
  • Said

• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Son
  • Revenge
  • Rebel

• We see it on the news all the time and wanted to see what it's all about.

  

  Jason Cooper The Cure
  • Time
  • News

• For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

  

  Nicholas Pileggi
  • Rules
  • Murder
  • Killings

• Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Daily
  • Planning

• Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

  

  Paul Kurtz
  • Universe
  • Meaning
  • Temptation

• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Ifs