Christie Hefner Quotes
In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
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Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
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When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
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We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
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In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?
