Dominick Dunne Quotes

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Dominick Dunne

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• After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Said

• That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • Night
  • Party

• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Week
  • Intelligence
  • Planes

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

  

  Edie Falco
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Chance

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Healthy

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Communist
  • Horizon

• I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • America
  • True
  • Realize

• Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Fear

• I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Technology
  • Ideas

• It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • House
  • Wife
  • Water

• Schoenberg's music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Soul

• I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Insecurity

• The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Good

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Life
  • Scared

• I think I need pictures with my articles.

  

  Dominick Dunne