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

• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Football
  • Cricket

• 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

• The fans make the person a star.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Star
  • Person
  • Fans

• 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

• Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Good
  • Home
  • Jesus

• My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Health
  • Model
  • Legacy

• The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Country
  • Irish

• When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Couple
  • Choices

• I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

  

  Henry Hudson
  • Force
  • Crew
  • Persuasion

• 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