Boy George Quotes

I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

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• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • More

• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Religion

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Positive

• To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Build
  • Core

• With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Art
  • Want

• A second time, after many years, I was taken captive. On the first night I accordingly remained with my captors, but I heard a divine prophecy, saying to me: 'You shall be with them for two months. So it happened. On the sixtieth night the Lord delivered me from their hands.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Time
  • Night
  • Taken

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt

• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth
  • Path

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • Art

• I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Country

• I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Book

• If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

  

  Garance Dore
  • Thinking
  • Pieces
  • Essentials

• While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Book

• I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

  

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