John Niven Quotes

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

John Niven

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MusicTimeMeBookSickFriends

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

PastOnlyMillenniumConceit

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Sophocles

GratitudeDeadQuickOffHowOwed

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Sol LeWitt

ArtWallEarthDevelopmentOutJust

I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

Solange Knowles

Getting OldOldHeelsInchSure

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Moliere

MeWrongKnowRight

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

LoveLove IsPeopleSolitudeTwo

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Joyce Meyer

GodBelieveHelpSometimesBless

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos

ConfidencePeopleSameHeadPrime

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Dee Dee Myers

WomanYearOfficeUnitedUsBecause

In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

WomenScienceTimeGovernmentLose

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Rick Danko

WorldBigChangingYoungerVisions

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

Marianne Elliott

CharacterWalkMeDoorYouNever

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