Charlyne Yi Quotes

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

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• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Trust
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Bond

• My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Pretty
  • Education
  • Dad

• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Technology

• I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Want
  • Light

• I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Different
  • Think
  • Everything

• I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Trying

• He's learning me all of his experience.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Experience
  • Learning

• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Road

• The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Good

• If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Chance
  • Shows
  • Loud

• Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Characters
  • Laughs

• Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

  

  Dee Rees

• Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Song
  • King

• I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

  

  Charlyne Yi