Francesca Battistelli Quotes

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

Francesca Battistelli

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • House
  • Never

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art

• The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Home
  • Night
  • Health

• To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • America

• The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

  

  Carol P. Christ

• I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Happy

• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hand

• I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Work

• I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or not I think it's intrusive. If it is problematic, then I ask those involved. I won't necessarily do what they say. But I do consult. I haven't had too many problems. Nobody's really gotten angry at me. Nobody, as far as I know, has felt betrayed.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Angry

• There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

  

  David Denman
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

  

  Alistair Petrie

• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Affinity

• My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Daughter

• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Movie

• I reckon we'll play the majority of the record and then we'll probably end the set with some of the older stuff that we can include improvisation on. I think the game plan is to play all the new stuff as individual songs, unless something opens up and we recognise it as a spot to fool around with.

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • Songs
  • Improvisation

• When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Hope
  • Saving
  • Homosexual

• There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

  

  Edwin Paxton Hood
  • Success
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Knows

• I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

  

  Francesca Battistelli
  • Mistake
  • Needs
  • Knows