Gwen Stefani Quotes

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Future
  • Best
  • Vote

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Woman
  • First
  • Before

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • School
  • Family
  • Remember

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Career

• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Me

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Country
  • Family
  • High

• My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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