Carole King Quotes

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Carole King

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Believe
  • May
  • Government

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Free
  • Political

• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Crazy
  • Driven
  • Schedule

• 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

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • London

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Business
  • Mirror

• I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Life
  • Adventure

• The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • People
  • Future

• Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • American
  • Sick

• The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Good
  • Business

• I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

  

  Carole King
  • People
  • Good
  • Music