Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes

I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.

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• When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Remember
  • History
  • Opportunity

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Enlightenment

• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Me
  • Like
  • Dying

• As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Look
  • Ignore
  • Camera

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Fans
  • Songs

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Rich
  • More

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

  

  Al Murray
  • Kid
  • Holidays
  • Self-Sufficiency

• As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

  

  Jim Coleman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Job
  • Future

• I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Attention