Steven Tyler Quotes

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Steven Tyler Aerosmith

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Real
  • Care
  • Fit

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • You
  • Support

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Humanity

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • True
  • Fiction

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • High
  • Taken
  • Interest

• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Don Marquis

• Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Kids
  • Possibility
  • Daydreaming

• The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Taken
  • Tears