Danny Meyer Quotes

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

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• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Think
  • Listen

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Strategy
  • Filmmaking

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Brain

• Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

  

  John Lukacs
  • Chinese

• Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Home
  • Color

• In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

  

  Lou Adler
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Great
  • Paris