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

• 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

• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Epic

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

  

  Obafemi Awolowo

• When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard... it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Up
  • Rocky

• If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • She

• Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • People
  • Impossible
  • Resources

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

  

  James P. Gorman
  • People
  • Powerful