Toby McKeehan (TobyMac) Quotes

Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

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• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Great
  • Support
  • Going

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understood

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • True
  • Man

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Popular

• A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Crisis
  • Agency

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Position
  • Arts
  • Lillian Gish

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Money
  • Power
  • Today

• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Change

• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Learn

• He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Image
  • Half
  • Himself

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Work
  • Emotional
  • Uplifting

• There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • High

• We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Crazy

• But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Pretty
  • Singing

• The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Common
  • Investors
  • Relative

• Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

  

  Toby McKeehan
  • Crazy