Lucinda Williams Quotes

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

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• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Young Man

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Act
  • Would
  • Judicious

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Doing

• I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Way
  • Build

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Bread

• Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Black

• Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• I never give orders. I sell my ideas to my associates if I can. I accept their judgment if they convince me, as they frequently do, that I am wrong. I prefer to appeal to the intelligence of a man rather than attempt to exercise authority over him.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Exercise

• I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Champion

• It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Practice
  • Balance
  • Compassion

• I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• It's definitely tough to know you're going to be the last one. It's the best skaters in the world, it's the Olympic Games, it's 11:30 at night. But you just sort of stay in your own world, take it one step at a time and stay strong.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Olympic Games
  • Skaters

• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Control
  • Period

• He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

  

  Ian McDonald 21st Century Schizoid Band
  • Theatre

• There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

  

  Lucinda Williams