Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

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• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Creation

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Best

• I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Know
  • Me
  • Image

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie

• I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Moving

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • World
  • Music
  • Think

• We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends

• Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • Team
  • December

• I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

  

  John Grant
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Beginning

• In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Up
  • World
  • Remember

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

  

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