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Jake Shears Quotes

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

Jake Shears

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1978

Topics

War Me Mom Crazy Political Upset

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

Jimmy Wales

Time Think Bad Know Three Why

It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

John Niven

Time School War Book Cold Height

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

John McCain

Win Just Wars Countries Armies

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

Jeff Bridges

Look Back Movies See Pretty Stuff

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

Birthday Cake Chocolate Find Never

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shirley MacLaine

Best Way Old Something Get Best Way

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Rob Zombie

Classic Up Forever Been Gradually

I have always been a good mimic.

Robin Wright

Good Always Been Mimic

I sing a little bit in videos, at the end of vlogs. A lot of my fans started requesting that I do a song. They started planting this seed in me.

Rosanna Pansino

Me Song Seed End Little Fans

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Lorrie Fair

People College Me Team World Think

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

Lisa Hanawalt

People Me Enjoy Drawing Want Tell

I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

Christian Louboutin

Work Shoes Child Fashion Thought