Tori Amos Quotes

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

Tori Amos

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PeopleMeGivingNewsWantAim

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

Andrew Stanton

ThinkFeelWillOpeningAnything

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

HopeDecisionSchoolFeelingsUnited

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Jeff Bezos

WorkThinkLongYouInventionFail

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Stefan Edberg

ConfidenceYouServeGotGoingWell

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.

Rumaan Alam

LifeLearningBeautifulMy LifeNew

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

Missi Pyle

GreatSchoolHigh SchoolDoingDrama

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Luis Alberto Urrea

GracePoliticalKarmaThemeWriter

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Don Mattingly

WorkDecisionsTemptationWantWay

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

PeopleTheatreSmallChurchReach

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

Courtney Love

LiveThoughtDumbThroughAnything

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

MoneyPeopleThinkThinkingEveryday

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

Pete Hamill

DoorYouHolidayDownGoOut

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