Danny Meyer Quotes

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Different
  • Day

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • College
  • Myself
  • Hair

• Home is where one starts from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Where
  • Starts

• We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Live
  • Think
  • Boy

• To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Hope

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Work
  • Together
  • Soul

• The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Great
  • War
  • Help

• When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • You
  • Old
  • Sunday

• One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

  

  Kajol
  • Reality
  • Dance
  • Judge

• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I don't need much coaxing.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Need
  • Much

• If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Money
  • Think
  • Best

• I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Modern
  • Alice
  • Wonderland

• Accessories design is one of the most creative categories. It's like cooking, like decorating, because it involves the person. They have to choose, and they have to figure out how to wear it and to mix it based on their style.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Style
  • Design
  • Cooking

• Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • High
  • Today

• I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

  

  Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Oneself
  • Else
  • Self-Sacrifice

• If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don't think we discuss it enough.

  

  Angie Thomas

• When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

  

  Danny Meyer