Blanka Vlasic Quotes

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

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• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Style
  • Focus
  • Budget

• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

  

  Iman
  • English
  • Language
  • Better

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Working
  • Chosen
  • Patriotism

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Up
  • Family
  • Television

• I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Home
  • Job

• We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Death
  • Culture

• It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Financial

• I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Great
  • Blogger

• His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Wish

• I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Help

• This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.

  

  Kay Koplovitz
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Achieve

• The Olympics must be my curse or something.

  

  Blanka Vlasic