Linda Quotes

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

Don’t kiss me,” she said warningly. “I don’t intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.

He needed a woman. Bad.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

If I wasn't doing SportsCenter, I'd still be on the couch watching my favorite teams play. I have such passion, and I've always tried to keep that passion even in the workplace.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

Make an obstacle an opportunity.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

I can live with myself.

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.