James P. Gorman Quotes

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Opponent
  • Aggression

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Up
  • Look
  • Young

• People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Public

• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Look
  • Flowers

• All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • Great
  • Man

• I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Fly
  • Pants
  • Seat

• You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Figure Out

• The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Fun
  • Goal

• I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base - like San Antonio, Minneapolis - those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

  

  Bret Hart
  • I Love
  • Cities
  • Fan Base

• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • May
  • Future

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • People
  • Powerful