Rufus Wainwright
Related RUFUS WAINWRIGHT If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good eno... JAKE PALTROW TONY DANZA I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO J. D. SOUTHER DAN BROWN Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't ... EMMY ROSSUM SAM SMITH Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ... KARA DIOGUARDI I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'... ERIC VAN LUSTBADER GEORGE FOREMAN OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN ANNETTE BENING TINA TURNER BILL MUMY I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you... MAX WINKLER I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough... SKYLAR GREY DELTA GOODREM I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I'... CATHY FREEMAN JACK WHITE MATISYAHU JUDY GARLAND If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the od... BRETT HOEBEL LYNDA BARRY SALLY RIDE If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because ... CHRISTOPHER ROUSE ELI BROAD STEVE WINWOOD ROBERT FISK QUENTIN TARANTINO All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older per... REX HUNT I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you'... BRYAN CLAY Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don Mc... JAKE BUGG You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself... DIANA KRALL ALAN SHEPARD JERRY LEWIS SRIKUMAR RAO I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music. MIKE FIGGIS VIGGO MORTENSEN TED LANGE PATRICIA BRIGGS R. KELLY GERMANY KENT HARVEY MACKAY I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid.... CARLENE CARTER You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in ... ALISON JACKSON SHAILENE WOODLEY I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that... GRANT GUSTIN I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING JOHN CASSAVETES LJUPKA CVETANOVA I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and i... OLAF CARLSON-WEE STEVE JOBS I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it bas... JAKE OWEN EDWARD SNOWDEN I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been abl... TROIAN BELLISARIO BILL NIGHY I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ... HALEY BENNETT I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ... JIM VARNEY JACQUELINE EMERSON CHRISTINE LAVIN CHARLIE PUTH I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State ... BILLY PORTER I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN MUHAMMAD ALI All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing t... DANNY THOMAS Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?' that sounds like a ... JOHN GRANT I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and ye... AMANDA HEARST DRAYMOND GREEN TRENT REZNOR I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why... KRISTIN HERSH I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that... SHELBY LYNNE I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theat... ELLEN PAGE It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela... NORAH JONES If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo... NICK FLYNN If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mort... BILL FLORES That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best... RANDY HOUSER I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenage... MARCIA CROSS It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Sa... LUKAS FORCHHAMMER MARINA ABRAMOVIC PRIYANKA CHOPRA I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them wha... SCOTT IAN Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest ... BRIAN O'DRISCOLL GEORGE HARRISON BRAD PITT NANCY MARCHAND LUCAS TILL HAYLEY WILLIAMS We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn'... GABRIELLE UNION SHAILENE WOODLEY There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got ... A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written. IRVIN D. YALOM Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've ... QUESTLOVE JIMMIE JOHNSON TOM BRADY HODA KOTB EL DEBARGE JACK WELCH PETER USTINOV
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I still think of myself as a starter.... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped. ADAM WAINWRIGHT Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ... ADAM WAINWRIGHT It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I learned a lot from him. ADAM WAINWRIGHT I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe... ADAM WAINWRIGHT For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat... ADAM WAINWRIGHT If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who... ADAM WAINWRIGHT JOHN WAINWRIGHT The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Ive come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Even the great get greater by doing more of it. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Reading is no substitute for action. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt. JERRY WAINWRIGHT We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th... MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra... JERRY WAINWRIGHT Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth... ADAM WAINWRIGHT Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t... JERRY WAINWRIGHT They humbled us on the glass. JERRY WAINWRIGHT The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level. JERRY WAINWRIGHT Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen. JERRY WAINWRIGHT They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde... JERRY WAINWRIGHT The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo... JERRY WAINWRIGHT The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You... JERRY WAINWRIGHT His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon. JERRY WAINWRIGHT Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! W.O. WAINWRIGHT I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced m... MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do, WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. ... RUFUS SEWELL RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I c... RUFUS SEWELL ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole glo... RUFUS KING ALLAN RUFUS I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays... RUFUS SEWELL RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE The key part of your brand is a quality product. Creating exceptional content is the number one thin... RUFUS GRISCOM I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and... RUFUS SEWELL Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. RUFUS JONES The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. ANNELI RUFUS People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got ... RUFUS SEWELL Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that ... RUFUS SEWELL We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov... ANNELI RUFUS It has been said 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. This statement is most assuredly... RUFUS RHODEN This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. RUFUS KING I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged. RUFUS RHODEN I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I ... RUFUS SEWELL We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called.... ANNELI RUFUS And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ... ANNELI RUFUS Life is like a box of chocolates, it mostly tastes like shit. RUFUS RHODEN There are two kinds of people I don't like being around, stupid people and ugly people. I guess that... RUFUS RHODEN RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE Good or evil? It's really just a matter of perspective. RUFUS RHODEN The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the ... RUFUS JONES Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al... RUFUS JONES ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does - when you can't get enough of it. ANNELI RUFUS Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ... ANNELI RUFUS I'd like an omelet named after me. RUFUS SEWELL When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m... RUFUS SEWELL Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I&#... RUFUS SEWELL I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got ... RUFUS SEWELL ALLAN RUFUS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ... RUFUS JONES The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school. LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ... GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT A book is the only immortality. RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to tho... 
I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply m... 
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... 
I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time stu... 
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've al... 
When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to yo... 
'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. Whe... 
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - wh... 
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments -... 
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic te... 
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understan... 
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a p... 
I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have r... 
I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of ... 
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to ... 
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. 
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't some... 
Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? ... 
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cu... 
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge... 
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be th... 
A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't peop... 
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't co... 
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It... 
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; ... 
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... 
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... 
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't ... 
There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't be... 
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emoti... 
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. 
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life,... 
When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the ... 
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don&#... 
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the... 
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who... 
He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work... 
I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W... 
So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&... 
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my li... 
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea... 
To be a philanthropist, you don't have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you an... 
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a sce... 
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,... 
I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Bar... 
I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born... 
A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it ... 
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s... 
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm lik... 
I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don... 
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take towa... 
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr... 
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you... 
Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't f... 
Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor... 
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali... 
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. 
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I
keep step to the music of the Unio... 
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution. 
Life is like a sandwich!
Life is like a game of chess.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. 
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Fear makes men believe the worst. 
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. 
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. 
Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is ... 