Regina Spektor Quotes

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Regina Spektor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 18, 1980

Topics

ExperienceI AmCityWorldPersonal

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Jhumpa Lahiri

UpbringingAboutLotDenying

I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

John Skipper

AmericanRememberYouTrueBecome

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.

Steve Erickson

StoryYouNewEverythingTokyoOwn

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Mika

GoodMyselfDancePeopleFeel Good

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don't think they're teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who's saying that - a guy who was 300 pounds - but I'm doing a lot better than I used to. I'm letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

DJ Khaled

MyselfPeopleSayingThinkBetter

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Claire Tomalin

ManVoiceHouseYoungYoung ManHe

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

ChallengeMenBraveOvercomeOnly

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

Peter Bergen

TimeGovernmentWarSupportSurprise

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.

Peggy Johnson

ProcessSpeedJumpTimingNeedGap

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

Shaun White

MeGive MeGiveEndorsementStuff

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

Sherwood Boehlert

EnergyBuildingsPlaceTrueMore

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.

Shannon Hoon

DoneWantMoreNeverSatisfied

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