Very Quotes

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.