Christopher Voss Quotes

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

Christopher Voss

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• A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• 'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Want
  • Carry

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Things

• God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Brain
  • Goes

• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • School
  • Money

• Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • People
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Journey

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.

  

  Aeschylus

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Lion

• I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

  

  Bette Davis

• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People

• I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone

• Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Science

• I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Past
  • Stupid

• Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • School
  • Black
  • Slavery

• Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Clever
  • Escape

• We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Money
  • Pay
  • Individuals

• The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

  

  Christopher Voss