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

• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Food
  • Smart

• And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Animal

• I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Up
  • Funeral

• There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

  

  Will Durant
  • Present
  • Absurdity
  • Flourishing

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

  

  Christopher Voss