Anohni Quotes

We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Seen

• You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Know
  • Down
  • Gravity

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Country
  • Real

• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Time
  • World
  • Desire

• I express myself through my art.

  

  Steve Carr
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Express

• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Education

• We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Environment