Rod Stewart Quotes

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

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• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Passion
  • For Her

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Fall

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Blonde

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Done
  • Single

• The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Artist
  • Sculpture

• Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • History
  • Food

• I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • America

• Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

  

  Mick Hucknall Simply Red
  • Music
  • Call

• I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Interludes