Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'

Frankie Cosmos

• Money

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Worry
  • Perception

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Day

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • People
  • Country
  • Control

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Child
  • Lot

• It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Women
  • Artist
  • Christians

• American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

  

  Pontus Hulten
  • Different
  • Money
  • American

• I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

  

  Sarah Vaughan
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Hit

• The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

  

  Van Jones
  • Up
  • Time
  • Law

• I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Money