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Bat for Lashes Quotes

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

Bat for Lashes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: October 25, 1979

Topics

Work Learning Music Art Writing

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Anita Roddick

Education Health Value Values Nobody

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

Jeff Nichols

Moment Past People Me Face Bad

One of the pivotal moments for me was realizing that our 'food with integrity' approach at Chipotle was satisfying my passion. That's about bringing the best quality, sustainably-raised ingredients to everyone: chicken without antibiotics; beef without hormones. These ingredients were only available in high-end restaurants, not mainstream places.

Steve Ells

Integrity Passion Food Best Quality

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

Spike Jonze

Great Food McDonald Nice Now Wood

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

Steven Burd

Health Food Care You Look More

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

Trent Reznor

Car People Go Want Way More

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Robert Fritz

I Am Me Energy Giving Creation Am

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Ruth Reichl

Children Government Generation Policy

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Romesh Gunesekera

Future Live Past Face Understanding

There's nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I've done that.

Matt Besser

Football Listening Game Internet

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Mike White

Character Feel You Television Find

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you're on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, you're not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.

Mick Mulvaney

Work Food People Insurance You Back