Don Yaeger Quotes

Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise.

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• I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Become
  • Rhythm

• I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Tenure

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • Collaborate
  • Louis Vuitton

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Know
  • Democracy

• When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Makeup

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
  • Book
  • Know
  • Bond

• The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Good
  • Night

• I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

  

  David Dinkins
  • School
  • Law

• In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Book
  • Army

• Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise.

  

  Don Yaeger