Cass Elliot quote: "I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present...
CASS ELLIOT

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
CASS ELLIOT

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't son...
CASS ELLIOT

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
CASS ELLIOT

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what...
CASS ELLIOT

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
CASS ELLIOT

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I...
CASS ELLIOT

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it B...
CASS ELLIOT

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opi...
CASS ELLIOT

Honesty is all you need.
CASS ELLIOT

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ...
CASS ELLIOT

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta ke...
CASS ELLIOT

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained...
CASS ELLIOT

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
CASS ELLIOT

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.
CASS ELLIOT

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it...
CASS ELLIOT

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the...
CASS ELLIOT

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
CASS ELLIOT

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar...
CASS ELLIOT

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogm...
CASS SUNSTEIN

For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
CASS DALEY

We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to al...
MOSS CASS

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.
KIERA CASS

It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.
KIERA CASS

Maxon: “To be clear, no one agrees with you.”

America: “To be clear, I don’t care...
KIERA CASS

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
KIERA CASS

I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.
KIERA CASS

America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses...
KIERA CASS

America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadne...
KIERA CASS

Love is beautiful fear
KIERA CASS

It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.
KIERA CASS

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.
KIERA CASS

The best people all have some kind of scar.
KIERA CASS

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what i...
KIERA CASS

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.
KIERA CASS

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.
KIERA CASS

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of ti...
KIERA CASS

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take wh...
CASS DALEY

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
LEWIS CASS

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
ELI CASS

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.
ELI CASS

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segrega...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the Ame...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for...
CASS SUNSTEIN

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.
CASS SUNSTEIN

There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be G...
LEWIS CASS

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recogn...
CASS MCCOMBS

If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
CASS SUNSTEIN

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics o...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
KIERA CASS

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even w...
KIERA CASS

Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.
KIERA CASS

I loved him.
I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I kn...
KIERA CASS

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a cer...
CASS SUNSTEIN

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don'...
CASS SUNSTEIN

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I think the arc of history is long, and it bends toward justice. And I think that's what the ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.
KIERA CASS

When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basi...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if...
CASS SUNSTEIN

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. Fir...
KIERA CASS

Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
KIERA CASS

[As pointed out by Cass Sunstein, the University of Chicago law professor who wrote the 2001 book re...
CASS SUNSTEIN

She doesn't have anything like the qualifications of recent nominees. They were exceptionally qualif...
CASS SUNSTEIN

On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a de...
CASS SUNSTEIN

It was kind of unhealthy to have these things undecided.
CASS SUNSTEIN

In a very few cases the majority has referred to foreign decisions in the same way it might refer to...
CASS SUNSTEIN

It makes people think the stakes (in a confirmation) are much lower than they are,
CASS SUNSTEIN

We also learned he was really smart, careful, and that he did not hold any irresponsible or reckless...
CASS SUNSTEIN

There is a Republican noise machine that goes on arguing that 'legal activism' is killing us. Libera...
CASS SUNSTEIN

According to our information over the life of the agreement, China will receive only a minimal incre...
CASS JOHNSON

So now we will begin filing new safeguard petitions next week on additional categories,
CASS JOHNSON

We are disappointed that the Chinese government is not yet willing to negotiate seriously to resolve...
CASS JOHNSON

The two sides remain far apart. Before now, an agreement was a definite possibility, but China showe...
CASS JOHNSON

It sends the message that this is not a dying industry.
CASS JOHNSON

People thought there was a good chance of an agreement coming out of these meetings but it's clear t...
CASS JOHNSON

I hope they'll be willing to do that. But knowing how far apart they are, I would not be surprised t...
CASS JOHNSON

To come to an agreement, the Chinese government will have to be willing to move considerably,
CASS JOHNSON

At this round, China returned to its position of delay and no compromise by insisting on terms for a...
CASS JOHNSON

China also insisted that the U.S. forswear the right to invoke safeguard actions for any other produ...
CASS JOHNSON

There's a difference between using the Princeton name based on the location, verses an intent to tra...
CASS CLIATT

It was because he had trained participants so well that they could respond so quickly, and that we c...
CASS CLIATT

We're not waiting for them to contact us.
CASS CLIATT

This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would c...
CASS CLIATT

Our students take their meals there, and it is part of their undergraduate experience. Even though t...
CASS CLIATT

But the trial didn't proceed to a final conclusion to determine liability. We have no serious concer...
CASS CLIATT

We know that figure is seriously inaccurate. But we will not be able to provide a precise figure unt...
CASS CLIATT

We've had several calls and inquiries this morning. The phones down there are ringing off the hook.
CASS CLIATT

The university feels strongly about defending its name and we have actively and successfully challen...
CASS CLIATT

Princeton is very strong at undergraduate education in every area, whether it's firsthand research w...
CASS CLIATT

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, bu...
CASS SUNSTEIN

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense t...
CASS SUNSTEIN

If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of...
CASS SUNSTEIN

The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-trans...
CASS SUNSTEIN

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human bei...
CASS SUNSTEIN

When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while t...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
CASS MCCOMBS

It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions t...
CASS SUNSTEIN

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

We learned at least back then he was quite conservative. He was even a relative conservative in the ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

[At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era do...
CASS SUNSTEIN

He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.
CASS SUNSTEIN

a simple brain freeze, the sort that all human beings are subject to. On the other hand, it is at le...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Even though he's been in public life a long time, he's got a pretty sparse record. So I wouldn't be ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

My feeling on the Republican side, unfortunately, is they just want to make him look like an America...
CASS SUNSTEIN

But movement Republicans want to see the court shift in the direction represented by Scalia and Thom...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators h...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond tha...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Celeste walked up, as strong as I’d ever seen her, and whispered something into Maxon’s ear.
KIERA CASS

I only have one heart, and I'm saving it.
KIERA CASS

I was afraid I was wrong, that you would change your mind any second. I’ve been looking for a suit...
KIERA CASS

Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.
KIERA CASS

I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchang...
CASS SUNSTEIN

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a per...
KIERA CASS

He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.
KIERA CASS

She wanted to be herself at all costs.
KIERA CASS

And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.
KIERA CASS

You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You'r...
KIERA CASS

Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.
KIERA CASS

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.
KIERA CASS

His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.
KIERA CASS

Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.
KIERA CASS

I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most int...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Wh...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important j...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies:...
CASS SUNSTEIN

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good.
KIERA CASS

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
CASS GILBERT

Princeton is attempting here to attain a leadership role, a national leadership role, in something t...
CASS CLIATT

What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immed...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making sali...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you...
KIERA CASS

Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss.

Something abou...
KIERA CASS

I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my ...
KIERA CASS

Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.
KIERA CASS

We're fairly familiar with dealing with natural disasters, and we had a major regional electrical ou...
BOB CASS

In those seconds, I was mourning everything I'd lost. How I'd never get to see you walk down an aisl...
KIERA CASS

I sighed. "Actually, Mom, we argue pretty regularly."
"What?" She gaped at me. "Well, stop it!...
KIERA CASS

In conducting business (especially for the office) never forget that the greatest danger arises from...
CASS GILBERT

Chocolate ... is the No.1 flavor ingredient in the world. Heart health is the No.1 concern. Putting ...
JIMMY CASS

We came into this week thinking this was going to be a really tough game, ... We knew they'd be exci...
LEWIS CASS

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be G...
LEWIS CASS

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern...
LEWIS CASS

For a small period of time, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. She made me feel...
KIERA CASS

I kept waiting for something to happen, which isn't how life works. In closed environments, everythi...
KIERA CASS

I'm not sure what it is, but you look like you've made and broken a lot of things and then made them...
KIERA CASS

Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its...
KIERA CASS

I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books w...
KIERA CASS

We were stars, we were music, we were time.
KIERA CASS

Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.
KIERA CASS

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year,...
KIERA CASS

On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. ...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I think the White House is torn internally,
CASS SUNSTEIN

For the first time, China began to negotiate constructively, but it still has a significant way to g...
CASS JOHNSON

Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn...
KIERA CASS

He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on ...
KIERA CASS

When you think commerce clause, don't think technical and meaningless. Think in what ways can the el...
CASS SUNSTEIN

What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convic...
CASS SUNSTEIN

The developing world must insist that China's growth continues to be restrained.
CASS JOHNSON

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your...
CASS GILBERT

I am a publisher-a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one ...
CASS CANFIELD

I think the expectation is that they will not make much progress today and the US (team) will go hom...
CASS JOHNSON

If there was the will to do it, a deal would have happened now. Talks can be resuscitated but there ...
CASS JOHNSON

There's still some outstanding issues, but I think they'll be cleared up.
CASS JOHNSON

This does not solve the problem; it only pushes the danger from China further off.
CASS JOHNSON

There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intima...
KIERA CASS

You want to have a highly competent control team, not just operationally but technologically, that c...
BOB CASS

We found some areas of vulnerability, but we're going to keep working on it over the next year, test...
BOB CASS

When some Republicans said that ideology didn't matter, they really meant that Democrats and liberal...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I think the bet right now is they're seriously going for it. It's certainly a better dynamic than we...
CASS JOHNSON

I cannot explain how two souls join. No man or element or god ever could. But you are tied to each o...
KIERA CASS

The Court failed to identify a provision of the (Constitution) that the Connecticut law violated. In...
CASS SUNSTEIN

You're investing your time in bringing your weeds back down to where your traditional weed control s...
CASS MUTTERS

The impeachment provision is for truly egregious wrongdoing, and we shouldn't repeat the unconstitut...
CASS SUNSTEIN

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I don't think any new member of the court will expect the court to follow his or her lead. We have n...
CASS SUNSTEIN

[Roberts' dissent is a] pretty big deal, ... The fact that he was willing to challenge the Endangere...
CASS SUNSTEIN

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.
CASS SUNSTEIN

By using its currency as an economic weapon and by pouring billions of dollars of illegal subsidies ...
CASS JOHNSON

Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak.
KIERA CASS

I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.
KIERA CASS

I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have.
KIERA CASS

We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or y...
KIERA CASS

[But] I have come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I wish it was something I cou...
KIERA CASS

What are these?" Maxon asked, brushing across the tips of my fingers as we walked.
"Calluses. T...
KIERA CASS

I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.
KIERA CASS

It's hard to get a hug wrong.
KIERA CASS

You ask for such simple things, I can't deny you.
KIERA CASS

I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.
KIERA CASS

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.
KIERA CASS

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

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Cass Elliot

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

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