Brandon Flowers Quotes

You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

Brandon Flowers The Killers

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Guy
  • Want

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Never

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Started

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Time
  • School
  • Win

• You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mind
  • You
  • Going

• If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• It's not our job to be liked teachers. Its our job to help them be smart students. Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Job
  • Students
  • Teachers

• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Always
  • King
  • Fight

• Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

  

  Elizabeth Arden

• Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Challenge

• You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Job
  • Bruce Springsteen