Kirsten Nelson Quotes

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
  • Advertising

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • World
  • Country
  • Song

• If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.

  

  Summer Phoenix
  • Family
  • Risk
  • Happiness

• No one wants to say, 'That's not funny,' when you're working.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Funny

• I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

  

  Kirsten Nelson
  • Together
  • Thanks