Meg White Quotes

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

Meg White The White Stripes

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• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Day
  • Couple

• The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Baby

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  

  Tan Le
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wake Up

• There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Fight
  • Terrorism

• It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • Space
  • Focus

• In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Heart
  • Hand

• If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

  

  Edward Abbey

• You lie so well I could never even tell what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in cause I’m a Labrador and I run when the gun drops the dove again

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Gun

• I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Music
  • School
  • Engineering

• In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Children
  • Literature

• With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It's not about what anyone else is doing. I can't worry about whether I am doing everything that another player is doing, which can be hard sometimes. I have to trust my training and know my body and figure out what will get the best out of me.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Trust
  • Player
  • Worry

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

  

  Evan Tanner
  • Failure
  • Desert
  • Cost

• I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes