Darcey Bussell Quotes

I never imagined I'd be a presenter on television, but I'm happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• One shouldn't know the future.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Future
  • Know

• Habits change into character.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Change
  • Habits

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Forget

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• 'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Me
  • Hand

• I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

  

  Irving Stone
  • School
  • Stop
  • Design

• It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Long
  • Difficult
  • Process

• The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Good
  • Gold

• I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

  

  Cory Booker
  • People
  • Heart
  • Reality

• Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Forever
  • Risk

• A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Character
  • Color

• A name is a solemn thing.

  

  L. T. Meade
  • Names
  • Solemn

• I never imagined I'd be a presenter on television, but I'm happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Happy