Gloria Gaynor Quotes

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Feel
  • Realize
  • Inside

• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Movie

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Career
  • Man

• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Me
  • Body
  • Relaxation

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Road
  • New

• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Stop
  • Passion

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• I quite like being who I am.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Like

• We are positive about our win and we know that our match was perhaps not as physical as the other matches on the weekend, so I think we have an advantage in that we have an extra day to recover.

  

  Naka Drotske
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Winning

• The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Freedom
  • Judge

• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

  

  George Ayittey

• People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.

  

  Ken Liu
  • People
  • Power
  • Control

• One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • High
  • Career
  • Winning