Kim Gordon Quotes

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Done
  • Thought

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Women
  • Intelligence

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Day
  • Brand
  • Queen

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down

• The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Good
  • Man
  • Humor

• In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Difficult

• When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Hate
  • Try

• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • Magic
  • Same

• Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dream
  • Scare

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Right
  • Secret

• The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Wisdom
  • Eternity
  • Confusing

• You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth