Mines Quotes - Page 15

• I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause that was my generation, so Tupac was mine.

  French Montana

  Thinking, Artist, Causes

  "French Montana talks about touring with Drake, working with Diddy & Rick Ross". Interview with Marian Tuin, thefeaturestory.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.

  Dolly Parton

  Gay, Judging, People

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• In terms of success and drive, I think some people are born with it, sometimes certain circumstances push you towards success... trying to prove people wrong. I'm not exactly sure where mine comes from, but, I have this thing inside of me that, when someone tells me that I can't do something, I become obsessed with proving them wrong. It's a weird thing.

  Tyra Banks

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.

  Columbus Short

  Passion, Heart, Dancing

  "Columbus Short: The This Christmas Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 17, 2007.

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• After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."

  Anne Hathaway

  Girl, Jobs, Princess

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.

  Karen Walker

  Thinking, Littles, Wow

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• I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

  Prince Royce

  Used, Showers

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• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teaching, Kids, Rocks

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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• I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Years

  "Interview with President Jimmy Carter". Index of coldwar Interviews. Episode-18, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Giving, Body

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Kids, Accepting, Like Something

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'.

  Jack Canfield

  Mother, Hero, Humble

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• I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

  Alexander McQueen

  Lying, Thinking, Editors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

  Chris Johnson

  Inspiration, Different, Band

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• A good friend of mine took me out and had me hit off a tee. He made me understand what was my strike zone and - with my speed - the importance of making contact. So I give him a lot of credit for changing my game and making me the player I became. He showed me how to work on me and my game, and not worry about patterning myself after someone else and focusing on what they were capable of doing rather than what I was capable of doing.

  Rickey Henderson

  Good Friend, Player, Games

  "AN Interviews Rickey Henderson". Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Peace, Small Hands, Age

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Gita, Guides

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Rooms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.71, A&C Black

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• How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Harbour, Inferiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Farrah's dressing room was next to mine. There was a little hole in the wall. I let her look.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

  Hugh Casson

  Art, Roles, Machinery

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• Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Cracks, Nuisance

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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