Jayne Mansfield Quotes

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

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• I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • School
  • High
  • New

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
  • Try

• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Influence
  • First
  • Chaos

• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Hurt

• I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we're calling it now, the Calf Crusher - the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I'll go with.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Youth

• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Value

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• She Helen brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

  

  Aeschylus
  • She

• A millionaire! I'm a Young Money Millionaire, tougher than Nigerian hair. My criteria, compared to your career? Just isn't fair.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Money
  • Career
  • Hair

• What if it's boring... or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent, and in the fact that this experience can be expressed for me in art work which is also wordless and silent.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experience

• We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Up
  • Money
  • She

• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Men
  • May
  • Confidence

• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Great

• I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.

  

  Daniel S. Loeb
  • Truth
  • Plato

• It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

  

  Sharon Gless
  • Movies
  • Buy
  • Males

• No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

  

  Jayne Mansfield