“I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.” ThinkingMeanKidsDealsHeardFameYeah Author:David Bowie
“Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.” IfsMenStreetsFameYeahDestinationPointless Author:Mos Def
“I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.” IfsBookDifferentWould BeArtistMy OwnQuietYeahWho I AmPerformersMy Own LifeCollectorsShopkeepers Author:Mos Def
“I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."” PeopleMenWantFeelsKidsNightSocialBandYeahSaturdayMusic LoveSaturday NightI Love Music Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that I didn't plan out, but the part that I was most curious about as I was writing. You know what you're doing, but you're sometimes still sort of curious as you're writing it.” KnowsWritingStillsBookSometimesCharacterLanguagePlansYeahCurious Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.” HardGuyPlansTasksYeahSurprisePlanningSchedulesSpontaneousPlanning Things Author:Adam Young
“When I started doing these advocacy groups, it sort of propelled and compelled me to write songs, because otherwise I wasn't really sure what I was going to do, music-wise. I wasn't particularly motivated to write songs. But this level of humanity and spirit that I witnessed greatly impacted and so inspired me, so that I felt this sort of renewed vigor to write music. As far as how grounding it is, yeah, it's the ultimate amount of perspective.” WritingSpiritSongHumanityFeltLevelsWiseGroupsPerspectiveAmountUltimateYeahInspiredMotivatedCompelledVigorAdvocacyGrounding Author:Thao Nguyen
“Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.” YearsHas BeensYeahEight Author:Elton John
“I talked to some of Donald Trump supporters and they, say, yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him, and I still think he's the right thing for America.” ThinkingStillsSometimesAmericaTrumpYeahRight ThingSupporterCringe Author:Don Gonyea
“I see what those people are doing with computers and it's just the new way of doing things and I don't look down on them for it, it's kind of funny that there are a lot of people - and I don't even care, this isn't me being like "well I do this" - but there are definitely people who are like: "Yeah I played all that."” PeopleWayWellsLooksKindCareComputerYeahNew WaysNew Ways Of Doing Things Author:The Rocket Summer
“I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.” IfsThinkingTwoAgreeYeahReviews Author:Don Cheadle
“We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range.” IfsThinkingMadeActorsWishYeahBlessedCastsListsRangeBryanKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm from Iceland, they say, "Yeah, Björk." And that makes me very proud, and that makes me proud to be an Icelandic artist.” IfsI CanArtistAsksProudYeahAsk MeIceland Author:Jon Gnarr
“Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."” WritingSometimesSongOkayYeahBlow Author:Bonnie McKee
“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."” PeopleThinkingWantGovernmentHappensIndividualDecisionMoralExampleUnderstoodArmyYeahOver YouMoral Decisions Author:Joel Stein
“It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'” Would BePaidYeahGrandchildrenPencilsMy Grandchildren Author:David Rees
“I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.” IfsThinkingTryingBookBigsJobsGuyDealsProvePaperNewsMouthsYeahPhonesOne TimeTicketsGood NewsBig DealFuriousParking Author:Rob Huebel
“You know, when you see a haircut of yourself from around 12 or 13, it's rough. I also had really bad acne. Where I had to take this medicine - serious medicine - with warning on the label, like, "Do NOT take this if you are pregnant." Thank God I wasn't pregnant at the time. But yeah, I just had bad haircuts, bad acne, and bad clothes for a long time. And probably still right now.” IfsKnowsLongStillsSeriousRight NowClothesLong TimeYeahMedicineLabelsRoughWarningThank GodPregnantHaircutsAcneBad Haircuts Author:Rob Huebel
“There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the way of his enlightenment. So, yeah, I have no chance of being enlightened.” WayWantChildrenStoriesGuyChanceWifeEnlightenmentYeahBuddhistEnlightenedCows Author:Larkin Grimm
“Where you go to these really good schools, and it's all about preparing for the next step of success. That was never even on my radar. My job is to explore the world, because this is my one life, you know? That's totally how I see it. But I came to Yale just being like, Yeah, now I get to explore this place and meet all these people who are really smart. And I was just excited to be surrounded by people who were as smart as me or were probably smarter. And I just did not expect the level of competition and bitterness and anger, and, the tearing each other down.” PeopleKnowsWorldSchoolJobsNextLevelsStepsSmartYeahCompetitionExcitedBitternessJust BeingSmarterPreparingNext StepsRadarYaleReally SmartGood School Author:Larkin Grimm
“Yeah, I love A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was just a fan. I was such an avid fan. I remember being on the set talking about a sequence and he started asking me about maybe staging it a little different. I realized - I think he was shocked that I knew his work so well - I remember I started going like, "Why don't we do it like The Last House on the Left, where you had the girl on the ground..."” ThinkingWellsLittlesDifferentLastsRememberGirlHouseLeftTalkingFansStreetsAskingYeahI RealizedNightmareShockedSequenceAvidStagingNightmare On Elm Street Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).” YearsBookEndsJobsDealsCuttingMaterialsBirthYeahObligedJuniorsBlogsPizzaJunior High Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature.” ThinkingFeelsKindTwoDifferentYoungSongSimpleCitiesRecordsModernSpecialYeahConnectedVampirePianoMelodyLionsVocalLike SomethingSomething SpecialMiniaturesVignettes Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?” HandsForeverRocksStageArmsGoes OnBedYeahClockCandleRock N RollNightcap Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“To improv-nerd-out for a second, it's like the most aggressive yes-anding you can do - if someone's like, "Yeah, you're super thin, right?" And you just pull that into a character and do seven more episodes of the podcast and remember to bring that up.” IfsCharacterRememberCan DoYeahSevenAggressiveEpisodesNerd Author:Jon Gabrus
“In some ways, except that in that movie [Skyfall] I was mostly screaming and running away from the bad guys, whereas in this one I'm generally jumping into the action and fighting with them. So, yeah, it was somewhat similar, but also very different.” WayDifferentRunningActionGuyFightingYeahRunning AwayJumpingBad GuysSkyfall Author:Naomie Harris
“We don't have a lot of time to practice, but yeah, we need to find a keyboard over there, or else I need to bring one. We're intending to do so. I don't want to let you down and say that we 100% are, but yes, we're intending to do so.” WantNeedsPracticeDown AndYeahKeyboards Author:Theresa Wayman
“I did it a little bit in college, but now I've been doing it more. But yeah, it's not, I think you can definitely have a sense of humour about it. Like a lot of the time I'll finish my set with 'Sandstorm' by Darude - do you know that song? That's a funny song. People also go apeshit when you play it. But at the same time, it's not like the whole thing is a joke.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayWholeSongBitsCollegeHumourLittle BitJokesYeahDo You KnowSandstormsFunny Song Author:Chris Baio
“On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, "Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing." Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingLittlesSpiritualCultureSidesMy OwnStruggleResearchAdultsYeahMajorityAwakeningAuthenticityVulnerableUncomfortableVulnerabilityMottoFlipSpiritual AwakeningBreakdownSaying YesMy Motto Author:Brené Brown
“How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."” ThinkingLittlesBitsLessonsOfficeLittle BitYeahDeeperI've LearnedSmarterTherapists Author:Daphne Zuniga
“I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No."” PeopleThinkingRealityFilmDealsBasesPoliceYeahCriticizeOverwhelming Author:Oren Moverman
“A vocal performance “Coming Together” is hard, but it's the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you can do it and it feels great, because it was so hard. So we'll continue maybe even over the next couple of years to perform that and to expand our collaborative repertoire.” IfsFeelsYearsKindHardEnoughNextCan DoHard WorkCoupleYeahYou Can Do It Author:Will Oldham
“I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'” PayAttentionLike YouMarkYeahVery GoodPay Attention Author:Joel Kinnaman
“My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.” YearsDoneAbleSonDadYeahSuper Cool Author:Vincent D'Onofrio
“I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.” KnowsWayMeanI CanHardCausesSoundSimpleTalkingYeahOutlookHard ThingsSeminary Author:Nick Lowe
“Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I feel like that's an underrated virtue. It's modest and it's kind of anonymous, which I liked, because it reminds me of my own ideas about why music should be played, which is not to be a star. That was never my intention.” FeelsShouldWellsKindIdeasStarsMy OwnVirtueYeahIntentionModestUnderrated Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.” ThinkingWayNeedsSpiritSongTurnsCausesFineYeahTunes Author:Mark Ronson
“Yeah of course, it's a lot of emotions, a lot of different thoughts, it's a big thing, the biggest I've done in my life so far but still it's just a fight for me, I go in there and have fun basically. I'm doing something I love to do.” StillsDifferentDoneBigsFightingCoursesFunEmotionYeahHaving FunBig ThingsFight For Me Author:Alexander Gustafsson
“here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.” PeopleStillsPlayProblemBigsFormNaturalViewsEconomicProductsWeaponsYeahThreatOilRussiaWorriedGasTourismTurkishNatural Gas Author:Peter Kenyon
“Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.” WantImportantBookSeemsFeltStuffEmotionalYeahFinishedSillyPrintRelevantPetty Author:Bob Colacello
“If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.” IfsKnowsWantLongMomentsSufferingBitsWaitingAudienceYeahRevelationsThat MomentDelay Author:William Mapother
“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."” FeelsI CanReasonBigsWould BeAbleTurnsStuffSoundGrowing UpNiceGrowingMomYeahWestHip HopMy MomRapDrivingHorribleHipsHopsCoastBassGangstersWest CoastGangster Rap Author:Moshe Kasher
“Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsMightInfluenceStreetsWallYeahDollarsBillionsCampaignsContributionLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for 11 hours, answered their questions. They basically said yeah, didn't get her. We tried. That was all a political ploy.” SaidPoliticalHoursRepublicanYeahEmailControversyStirringPloyBenghazi Author:Hillary Clinton
“Yeah, for me there are other challenges that aren't musical too. Like you just don't have as many people to feed off of energy wise, you are loading in and out and you are driving yourself more. Most of the challenges that count are the musical ones. I don't know why people come out to the shows, but I never think that it is to hear me play the guitar and sing. I think it must be in the writing and the presentation, which are the areas that I feel most comfortable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingPlayShowsEnergyChallengesWiseLike YouComfortableAreasYeahGuitarMusicalDrivingPresentation Author:Stephen Kellogg
“Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim's idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they're okay now. That is true.” PeopleIdeasEnoughHelpingFilmFormStuffLuckyOkayYeahFingersTortureHelp MeTreatmentLengthNailsBathroom Author:Johnny Depp
“I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like...So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.” WayFeelsLongStillsArtistMy OwnStandardsYeahCome UpLegendsLong WayLong Way To Go Author:Ginuwine
“I'm older now, and I been through that, like, 'Stop. Tell the truth, what I need to do?' And I think that's important, as far as artist, for me to stand for what I believe in, And a lot of times people don't like that, you know what I'm saying. You become a troubled artist, or, 'You don't listen,' but as long as I say 'Yeah, I'll do it!' I'm a good person.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsBelievePersonsLongImportantArtistI BelieveYeahI Believe InTelling The TruthGood Person Author:Ginuwine
“Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsSeemsYeahComplicatedWeatherTime Of Need Author:Lou Doillon