Marta Kristen Quotes

I guess I'm a born ham.

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • You
  • Mean
  • Singing

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Experience
  • Leader
  • Chinese

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

  Val Guest
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Favourite

• Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Acting

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Support
  • Party

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Reading

• I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Just

• But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Friends

• I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • School
  • Listening

• When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Choices
  • Exercise

• When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Real

• Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Different
  • Done
  • Power

• When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

  

  Daymond John

• I guess I'm a born ham.

  

  Marta Kristen