Nellie Melba Quotes

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

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• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Needs
  • Everyone

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Rude
  • Manners
  • Terrorist

• When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Me
  • Taken
  • Police

• I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Really
  • Journal

• I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• All I know is that I'm tired of being clever Everybody's clever these days Take a win Take a fall I never wanted your love But I needed it all…

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fall
  • Tired
  • Clever

• Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin

• Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Daughter

• I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.

  

  Charlaine Harris
  • Good
  • Work
  • Friends

• In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Community
  • Minds
  • Discussion

• One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

  

  Nellie Melba