Stevie Nicks Quotes
You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.
Quotes to Explore
-
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
-
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
-
I received free health care.
-
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
-
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
-
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
-
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
-
As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
-
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
-
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
-
Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
-
Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
-
I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
-
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
-
I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
-
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
-
What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their lives.
-
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
-
From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.
-
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
-
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
-
You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.
