Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Take the tone of the company you are in.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Saying

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Choose

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Question
  • Personality
  • Leadership

• You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Know
  • Where

• I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Movie
  • Disney
  • Director

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Done
  • Art
  • Clothes

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Successful

• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Running
  • Looks

• To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Cool

• We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • World
  • War
  • Suffering

• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  

  Elon Musk
  • God
  • Power

• Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

  

  Bryce Courtenay
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Interesting

• Take the tone of the company you are in.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield