James Dyson Quotes

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

James Dyson

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• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Mom

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Real

• There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Economic
  • Performance

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Mom

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Very
  • Got
  • Fond

• There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • Like
  • Beauty

• My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • God
  • Man
  • Dark

• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growth

• Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wonder

• People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • People
  • Die
  • Same

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Princess

• 'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work

• I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • High
  • Serious

• Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

  

  George Nethercutt
  • Friends

• Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Brain
  • Operations
  • Diaphragm

• I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

  

  James Dyson