Jean-Eric Vergne Quotes

Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Down

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Politics

• I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Play
  • Football
  • University

• I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me. I liked the way he kept his right foot forward, being a left-handed hitter, and his left foot back. That gave him more body and shoulder power than the average hitter has.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Power
  • Study

• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Husband

• I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Alien

• Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

  

  Jill Stein
  • World
  • She
  • Power

• I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get so immersed in the game because I love general play so much.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

  

  Claudius

• I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • First
  • Here
  • Hated

• There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Remember
  • Fear
  • Hate

• It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Song

• Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne