Groups Quotes

• I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Long
  • Song
  • Words

• It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Bigs

• There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Focus
  • Asking
  • Pub

• My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Inspiration
  • Michael Jackson
  • Motown

• Growing a moustache wouldn't really coordinate with the group dynamics.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Growing
  • Dynamics
  • Moustache

• The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • English
  • Differences
  • German

• My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Going
  • Groups

• I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Groups
  • Camps

• Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Two
  • Intimidating

• n the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Groups
  • Feminine
  • Super

• I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Form
  • Groups
  • Theocracy

• I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

  

  Nia Long
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Uniforms

• I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Ideas
  • Interest
  • Mentality

• You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • School
  • Groups
  • Chicks

• Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Way
  • Safety
  • Drug

• I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

  

  Francis Chan
  • School
  • Christian
  • Heard

• speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.

  

  Cholly Atkins
  • Style
  • Firsts
  • Moved

• I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.

  

  Zal Batmanglij
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • World
  • Different
  • Presenting

• The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Time
  • Groups
  • Drifters

• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Groups
  • Winner
  • Finals

• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  

  Gerry Beckley America
  • Different
  • Nice
  • Band

• My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them special interest groups everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

  

  Fritz Hollings
  • Hands
  • Interest
  • Special

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