Kenneth Lay Quotes

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

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• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Reason
  • Look

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Lifetime
  • Foot
  • Tibet

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Never
  • Emotion
  • Pity

• Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Fame
  • Fast
  • Bubble

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Stupid

• People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hold

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• My ultimate goal is whenever I go on the court, I just want to be known as one of the better players.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Better

• If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Understand

• My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Food
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Learning
  • Tombstone
  • Diploma

• I have learned, I am not a child and I have learned that… when I’ve spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself. So I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Waiting
  • Angry
  • Regret

• Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

  

  David Whyte
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wealth
  • Distribution
  • Conceit

• Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Tea

• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent - all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Action
  • Opponent
  • Savoring

• I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

  

  Kenneth Lay