Picabo Street Quotes

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• Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Chocolate
  • Weakness
  • Belgian

• If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Job
  • President
  • Ed Rendell

• I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • High
  • Failure
  • Pressure

• The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Blue

• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Artist

• My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Man
  • Me
  • Dad

• I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Money
  • Never

• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Opinion
  • Will
  • Against

• Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

  

  Randy West
  • High
  • Respect
  • Honor

• We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes. … protect yourselves. See trouble coming.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • She

• I used to be a superhero.No one could touch me, not even myself.You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Superhero

• The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
  • Shoes

• I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Songwriting
  • Melodies
  • Vocals

• Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

  

  Lene Hau
  • Why

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Chance
  • Hesitancy
  • Drawback

• I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Living
  • Boring

• It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • World

• That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

  

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