Kim Gordon Quotes

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

  

  Ma Jun
  • You
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I want every Grammy.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Every
  • Grammy

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • View

• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • You
  • Now

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Different
  • Country
  • Cost

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Family
  • Love
  • May

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Never
  • Oil

• I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Rules

• Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Now

• I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

  

  Washed Out
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Doubt

• An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

  

  Karl Marx

• Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters 'T' and 'H' joined together, which resembleth a 'Y,' do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced 'Ye,'-the like of which I never heard in all England.

  

  Bret Harte
  • Together
  • English
  • Jump

• I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Mind
  • Dog

• The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Problems
  • Lifestyle
  • Human Life

• Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Let

• Music has no limits of a life-span.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Music

• Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth