Kenneth Lay Quotes

Every market is in transition.

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Sea

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Moving
  • Legacy
  • Saying

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Car
  • Green
  • Transportation

• Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wise
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • America

• Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.

  

  Albert II of Belgium
  • People
  • Support
  • Confidence

• Some people say, 'Maude Apatow is my spirit animal.' I get that a lot. They tweet it to me.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • People
  • Animal

• With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movie
  • Audience
  • Protagonist

• I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Pants
  • Pairs

• Every market is in transition.

  

  Kenneth Lay