Pharrell Williams Quotes

I like anything sweet.

Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Pretty
  • Winning
  • Unique

• By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
  • Business
  • Together

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Night
  • Man
  • Stars

• It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Home
  • Water

• I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reading

• On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Food

• Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • Work
  • Living
  • Cultures

• I pick different projects for different reasons. Usually, it's a combination of things. I admire the director, and I am interested in working with the director. Or, it's the cast. I can be moved by the story. The ideal situation is you love the director and you love the cast.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Different

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Band

• Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Country
  • Power
  • Understanding

• I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • School
  • Home

• I like anything sweet.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Sweet