Danny Meyer Quotes
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.Danny Meyer
Quotes to Explore
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
Daniel Ek -
Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
Laura Dern -
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra -
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
Bear Grylls -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
Taylor Hackford -
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Ichiro Suzuki -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay -
Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
Vin Diesel
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
Dan Aykroyd -
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
D. B. Weiss -
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion -
One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
Orison Swett Marden -
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Nat King Cole -
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
Louis A. Johnson -
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
Bill Vaughan -
I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.
Charles Saatchi -
If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.
Otto Dix -
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
Danny Meyer