Conchita Quotes & Sayings

It was she who had led him to find himself. Picasso had risen to the challenge God had placed before him without even realizing it. In spite of his fears, in the face of her lengthy illness, and now her impending death, he had not abandoned her. Her steadfast love had helped him to become a noble man, and to be there for her in a way he had not been able to be for Conchita. — Anne Girard

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I felt in complicity with the tendency of this country to absolute desolation. — Julien Gracq

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England! — Edith Wharton

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home — Conchita Wurst

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else! — Conchita Wurst

live the life you want to live. Your Gender is not important, it's not important who you love or who you don't. It's important if you're a good person or not — Conchita Wurst

I've always wanted to be the center of attention. — Maria Conchita Alonso

I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary. — Maria Conchita Alonso

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. — Marilyn Manson

I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep. — Kristen Ashley

I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them ... those are the ones in trouble. — Maria Conchita Alonso

Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard! — Conchita Wurst

It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work. — Maria Conchita Alonso

I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young! — Maria Conchita Alonso

I'm living my dream, everything fell into the right place for me. — Conchita Wurst

I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star. — Maria Conchita Alonso

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50. — Maria Conchita Alonso

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room. — Maria Conchita Alonso

You only can hurt me if I don't know who I am. — Conchita Wurst

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world. — Maria Conchita Alonso

It's funny that these people think I'm so powerful. I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care. There are people who want to kill me and I'm always like, 'Well, get in line, darling. — Conchita Wurst

The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding! — Louis Althusser

For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement. — Conchita Wurst

Worry is useless. Worry saps our strength and steals our focus. It causes us to be more awestruck and dumbfounded by storms than by the one who silences storms with a word. — Judah Smith

There are no do-overs in life. — Conchita Hernandez Hicks

I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take. — Timothy Pina

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy. — Cheryl James

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word. — Loren Mazzacane Connors

It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny. — Maria Conchita Alonso

[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her. — Jim Butcher