Beverly Johnson Quotes

There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

Beverly Johnson

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • End
  • Conversation

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Never
  • See

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Help
  • Moving

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Internet

• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Television

• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Pride

• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Listening

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • School
  • Business
  • English

• Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Up
  • Women
  • Health

• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• 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 was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Young
  • First

• There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Morning