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
  • First
  • Influence
  • 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 have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Money
  • Past

• With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Losing
  • Generations
  • Freshness

• I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with.

  

  Little Simz
  • People

• I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Introduction

• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Myself

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

  

  Jayne Mansfield