Jerry Della Femina Quotes

At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.

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• Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Most
  • British
  • Novelists

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Up
  • Taxes

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Society
  • Law

• I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • School
  • Business
  • Wish

• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Self-respect

• I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
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