Fred Tomaselli Quotes

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Guy

• Let's just focus on unity and love.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Focus
  • Unity

• I grew up with Bond.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Bond

• When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• I am not a fashion freak!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Freak

• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • College
  • Vision

• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Write

• I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Fame

• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • First
  • Innocence

• New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Home
  • City

• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Long
  • America
  • Fun

• I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People

• Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Faith

• I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Tired

• I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Hate
  • Professional

• There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Genres

• Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Justice
  • Republic

• I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Universe
  • Lives
  • Fragile

• I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

  

  Fred Tomaselli