Nellie Melba Quotes

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Television
  • More
  • Someone

• I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Product
  • Agree
  • Software

• It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Sometimes

• I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

  

  Jack Black
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Thought

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Comedy

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Food
  • Anxiety
  • Eating

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Most
  • Sell
  • Leaves

• Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..

  

  P. L. Travers
  • She

• Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Nature
  • Simple

• Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Work
  • Music

• I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Right

• It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Up

• You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

  

  Nellie Melba
  • People
  • Worry
  • Worst