Kim Gordon Quotes

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Female

• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Strong
  • Stand

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • Creative

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Say
  • Latin

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
  • Sides
  • Terrorism

• The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Time
  • Know
  • Win

• Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

• Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Light

• Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

  

  Matt Gaetz
  • Disrespect
  • Flag
  • Indictment

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Year
  • Rule
  • Dress

• Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Singing