Christopher Voss Quotes

'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'

Christopher Voss

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Today
  • Young
  • Trends

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Dreams
  • Awards

• I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Look
  • Same

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I want to just be what kids believe in.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Want

• There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Special
  • Very
  • Beyond

• I wrote my first play when I was eight.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Play
  • First
  • Eight

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• I don't believe in ghosts.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Believe
  • Ghosts

• Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Experiment

• As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Love
  • Black
  • Wish

• I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Things
  • Plan
  • Return

• Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Speak
  • Just
  • German

• I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Faith

• I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • King
  • Princess
  • Cinderella

• Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

  

  Sabrina Marie Le Beauf
  • Suffering
  • Feelings
  • Animal

• Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Knowing
  • Places
  • Juice

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Joy
  • Pride
  • Sin

• 'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'

  

  Christopher Voss