Kim Gordon Quotes

I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • More
  • Medicine
  • Practicing

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Want
  • Start
  • Aim

• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • Run
  • United States

• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Reason

• All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

  

  James Thurber
  • Men
  • Hate

• I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Political

• For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Important

• Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged

  

  Kai Greene
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Dream

• I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Important
  • Girl
  • California