Jerry Della Femina Quotes

I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Love
  • Hate
  • See

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Popular
  • Author

• People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Same
  • Meetings

• People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • Dogs
  • Cowards

• Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Black

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Business