Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles Davis

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

Mila Kunis

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

Mila Kunis

Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.

Mila Kunis

The green thing I don't think frightens kids. It frightened me when I was like little because I didn't have the internet and didn't have all these other things that were, you know, in front of me at all times and accessible.

Mila Kunis

I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don't know. I think that it's up to the parents to decide. That's the truth. I'm not a parent. I have no idea, but I think some parents let a ten year old watch it and some parents wouldn't.

Micky Dolenz

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

Micky Dolenz

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Mickey Gilley

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Margarita Levieva

I was always the serious kid.

Margaret Spellings

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Mara Wilson

People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

Mara Wilson

I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

Jorma Kaukonen

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

Jorge Cruise

You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if youre going to be happy and authentic. Food isnt supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

Jorge Posada

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Jorge Posada

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

Jordan Peele

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

Jordan Peele

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Jonathan Winters

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Jonathan Winters

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

Jonathan Winters

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

Jonny Greenwood

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section.

Jonny Lang

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

Jonny Lang

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Joni Mitchell

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Kevin Rudd

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

Kevin Spacey

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

Kevin Bales

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

Kevin Bacon

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

Kevin Bacon

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

Kelli O'Hara

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

Keke Palmer

Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.

Keke Palmer

Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.