Elvis Duran Quotes

I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.

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• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Children
  • Money
  • Wife

• To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Best
  • Fact

• A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Great
  • Bad
  • History

• A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Why
  • Government

• Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Law

• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Hope

• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Small

• I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• I have always liked a challenge.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Liked

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Mentor

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I should've been a cowboy.I should've learned to rope and ride.Wearing my six-shooter, riding my pony on a cattle driveStealing the young girls' heartsJust like Gene and RoySinging those campfire songs.I should've been a cowboy.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Cowboy

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Gay

• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England.

  

  Brian Wildsmith

• I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Gay