Ronnie Wood Quotes

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

Ronnie Wood

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FamilyWaterMeRestBackBorn

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

John Oliver

AngryMemoryPeopleBlurYouKind

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Simon Van Booy

ManMeControlSurviveCareAnxiety

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

Rupi Kaur

BetterSwingOthersThingsPendulum

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

Molly Crabapple

LifeCoolWorldThinkYouKnow

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

Mona Simpson

TrustBestDayHabitReadingBetter

We've always been told to pretend as if we're not afraid.

Jason Reynolds

AlwaysAfraidPretendBeen

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

Don Yaeger

LeadershipTeamConsistencyAction

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Dianne Wiest

TimeMoreAwareElement

I dressed as the Riddler once, when I was little too heavy to do. I would wear tights. My brother was in a hair metal band, and he had Riddler tights made. My brother's a geek, but he was in a heavy metal band, so I'm a chubby fifteen-year-old, and I borrow his Riddler tights and wear them to school with the package. That wasn't a good idea.

Christopher McCulloch

GoodSchoolBrotherHairDressed

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

Annie Lennox

JobWorryWeekKnowStrikeUnions

To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

Susan Vreeland

GodGracePaintingFeelLandscape

I don't think I could survive in cold places.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

SurviveColdThinkPlacesCould

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