Matt Bevin Quotes

I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

Matt Bevin

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• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• I love men's wear.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Love
  • I Love

• I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Idea
  • Independence

• All critics should be assassinated.

  

  Man Ray
  • Should
  • Critics

• I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

  

  Finn Jones
  • World
  • Always
  • Seeing

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Truth

• Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows whenThe world was worthy of such men.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • World
  • Men
  • Fire

• Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Good
  • True

• The concept of the value network - the context within which a firm identifies and responds to customers' needs, solves problems, procures input, reacts to competitors, and strives for profit - is central to this synthesis.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Value

• The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Honesty

• Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Remember

• I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • People
  • Alone
  • Homeless

• What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Matter
  • Flesh
  • Ripples

• About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'

  

  Chuck Bednarik
  • Game
  • Head
  • Ball

• Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Emotion

• Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Power
  • Food
  • Respect

• I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

  

  Matt Bevin