Elizabeth Marvel Quotes

Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film.

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• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Government

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Silence
  • Gym
  • Rare

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Job
  • Media
  • Brand

• The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Success
  • Change
  • Financial

• On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Film
  • Dancing
  • Then

• Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Director
  • Keep
  • Contact

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Paris
  • Chocolate
  • Pastries

• Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Failure

• 'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Moments

• The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Hope
  • Poetry

• For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.

  

  Martin Chalfie
  • Live

• I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Remember
  • Strong
  • Physics

• Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Golf

• His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Mind
  • Library
  • Bliss

• Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel