Kevin Pietersen Quotes

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

Kevin Pietersen

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Like
  • Fans

• I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Angel

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • She
  • Want
  • Me

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Life
  • Respect

• Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • School
  • Friends

• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Avoid
  • Context
  • Repeating

• Habit is the nursery of errors.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Errors

• My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• ...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Life
  • Study
  • Flower

• I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Writing
  • True

• Boychick, wake up! Be something! Make your life something good. For the love of an old man who sees in your young days his new life, for such love take the world in your two hands and make it like new. Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

  

  Clifford Odets
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • God
  • Men
  • Character

• The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Poverty

• If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • True

• Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Why
  • Pieces
  • Grandpa

• If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

  

  Kevin Pietersen