Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Take

• I'm a reclusive weirdo.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Weirdo
  • Reclusive

• The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Try
  • Abortion

• I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Business
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mom

• You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Know

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Time
  • Single
  • Moment

• You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Bear
  • Often

• I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Political
  • Accountability

• As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Long
  • Political
  • Energy

• Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Desire

• In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, 'Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Partner
  • Divorce

• If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Darkness
  • Arms
  • Hug

• it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • World
  • Justice
  • Logic

• I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Work
  • Proud

• I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

  

  Kam Williams
  • Life
  • Today
  • Perfect

• I am a huge supporter of the Waxman foundation.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten