Elsa Peretti Quotes

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • You
  • Liberty

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.

  

  Marlon James

• Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Business
  • Relationship

• I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • High
  • Quality