St. Vincent Quotes

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

St. Vincent

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LoveCarRememberRoyalKidAlways

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

Andrew Mitchell

TodayChildrenSchoolWorldCost

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

Stacy Schiff

New YorkYearYouNewTryLeave

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Steven Wright

LoveDoingIceYouDangerousFrozen

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

Ron Stallworth

TexasKidJustEl Paso

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

Mike Jackson

ChangePeopleYouDoneMindsExpect

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicBestTransformationThinkKind

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

Christine Taylor

DreamsCommunitySchoolNew YorkNew

I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.

Chris Messina

TogetherNew YorkSmallNewThree

On YouTube, I've stayed very limited with what I've been willing to share, so it's been very surface-level with Miranda.

Colleen Ballinger

YouTubeShareBeenWillingVery

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

Bobby Riggs

I AmPigWantNumberAm

For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.

Wyatt Cenac

ChildhoodMeCuriosityThinkI Think

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Sylvia Earle

BackRepairCallSomethingLast

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