Duffy Daugherty Quotes

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

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• My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Country
  • Business
  • Community

• I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Done
  • You
  • Starting

• We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Experience
  • Point
  • View

• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • World
  • She
  • Remember

• But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Character
  • Today

• The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. 'You people with hearts,' he said, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common … I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her 'Elsie Fag'.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Mother

• He seemsTo have seen better days, as who has notWho has seen yesterday?

  

  Lord Byron

• When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

  

  David Gergen
  • Up

• I want to show how strong and smart women are. We go through so much. We need to see that on screen. Those female parts are not many, but they are out there, and I have to find some. I want that chance.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Smart

• Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Important
  • Competition
  • Innovation

• Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

  

  James Thomson
  • Health
  • Exercise

• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Beauty
  • Head
  • Fire Escape

• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  

  Duffy Daugherty