Kim Gordon Quotes

I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Way
  • Always
  • Camera

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Like
  • Green
  • Environmental

• China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

  

  Valerie June
  • Enjoy
  • Playing
  • Audiences

• Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Child

• I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • America
  • Think
  • Looking

• I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Think
  • Garbage

• Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Love
  • Death

• I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Like
  • Lyrics
  • Melody

• While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Human
  • Voice

• I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • American
  • Reading

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

  Christopher Egan

• Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Writing
  • Stills
  • Paint

• I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Long
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Feminist