Bess Myerson Quotes

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Bess Myerson

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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Really
  • Well

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time

• When we're recording, I always dress up.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Up

• If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Value

• The European public has always been great to me.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Great

• I always want more, and that's just my life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life

• Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Fashion

• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Free
  • Fashion

• I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • School
  • Smart
  • Sister

• I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

  

  John McGahern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Eyes

• In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Up
  • Free

• This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

  

  Beth Broderick
  • Gym

• My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Beautiful
  • Friend
  • Fashion

• Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Phoenix