Alison Moyet Quotes

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

Alison Moyet

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LovePeopleSingingFeelingChoice

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

Jessica Stockholder

LovePaintingPossibilitiesWayFull

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart

WomenMenGloryMoreEverythingPay

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.

Amy Chua

FamilyChildrenHusbandBelieveUp

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

Steve Winwood

LifeDogMusicManSayingBack

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

Simon Winchester

TimeBrokenRememberEarthForget

Let's talk about after-school programs generally. They're supposed to be educational programs, right? And that's what they're supposed to do; they're supposed to help kids who can't - who don't get fed at home, get fed so that they do better at school. Guess what? There's no demonstrable evidence they're actually doing that.

Mick Mulvaney

HomeSchoolBetterDoingHelpTalk

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Connie Willis

LoveGoodArtHeroGood PersonLook

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Bryan Batt

LoveI AmSilverThingsMintTitles

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Arthur Henderson

DriveNationalismEconomicOnlyPart

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

Susanna Clarke

LivePeopleKnowWhyStrangeAlways

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

Richard Leakey

HistoryThinkAfricaMoreHumanOut

I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you have to be the ages of this and this.

Mark Foster

MusicPeopleStartClothesYouWant

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