Kimbra Lee Johnson (Kimbra) Quotes

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

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• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hope
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Live
  • Past
  • Walk

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Cry

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Past
  • City
  • Band

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Words
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'

  

  Dax Shepard
  • People
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake
  • Time
  • Live
  • Remember

• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Time
  • Work

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Time
  • Emotional