Lesley Gore Quotes

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Lesley Gore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 2, 1946 - February 16, 2015

Topics

MorningDayMeGoldWorldWake Up

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

AgeStandArtistGoOutAgainst

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Michel Houellebecq

GreatBrainYouHuman BrainHuman

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Jose Bergamin

DanceRhythmOwnOnlyWhoThose

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

LovePowerEyesGreatLookMean

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

Bret McKenzie

CoolWorldFreeThinkYouKind

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

Pierce Brosnan

BeautifulEatingYouFameUpBig

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

Peter Mullan

WorkLookWantWayMoreUp

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

Pete Wentz

TimeWatchFavoriteMovieMichael

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

Norman Davies

RedVoiceRevolutionHouseYears

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

Kelela

TimeMyselfCollegeReasonAnalysis

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Janet Jackson

MyselfControlWorldToughCare

Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.

Hope Jahren

LookingDietYouSayTeethMeal

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