Agnes Obel Quotes

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

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• I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Worst

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Walk

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Living

• Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Control

• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • School
  • Done

• I never played with anything like toys.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Never
  • Toys

• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
  • Student
  • Anchor

• The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Help
  • Religion

• My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Men
  • Why

• I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Enemy

• I think I made his back feel better.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Better
  • I Think

• The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring back our fuckin' FLAG, asshole! Show us some moon rocks, or kiss this.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Why
  • Space
  • Moon

• When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Up
  • School
  • Movie

• Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

  

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