Deidre Hall Quotes

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Tells

• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Healthy

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Great
  • Music
  • Two

• I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Moving
  • Start
  • Gym

• If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Lady Gaga
  • Bugatti Veyron
  • Chevelle

• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Boring

• I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Long
  • Future

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Sell

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Business
  • You
  • Mission

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• All I can say is it's improper to criticize someone 30 years later.

  

  Bobby Clarke

• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Spirit
  • Liberty

• We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Trying
  • School

• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Lost
  • Loved
  • Lived

• Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

  

  Deidre Hall