Art Alexakis Quotes
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.Art Alexakis
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
Laura Bush -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
Manoj Bhargava -
Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson -
I just don't think men fancy me.
Gail Porter
-
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
Gabrielle Anwar -
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins -
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness
-
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly -
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
Warren Farrell -
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
-
I have worked with some great directors.
Dabney Coleman -
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge -
Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del Rey -
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
Pauline Neville-Jones -
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.
William A. Dembski -
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Art Alexakis