Adele Quotes

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Revenge
  • Wit

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Action

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Nice
  • Body
  • Everyone

• I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Clothes
  • Buying
  • Expensive

• On various occasions I’d said to a woman I was interested in, “I would invite you to dinner, but I can’t cook,” at which point I would hope she’d say, “I’m a great cook,” so I could ask her to come over and teach me; then we’d get drunk in the kitchen while I displayed what I hoped was my endearing clumsiness, never learning anything.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Hope
  • Teach
  • Interested

• They pried into the most secret recesses, ransacked every depository of papers, broke open every lock, and enjoyed the twofold gratification of curiosity and destruction.

  

  Louis Adolphe Thiers
  • Destruction
  • Broke
  • Pried

• Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

  

  Adele
  • Sports
  • Body
  • Clothes