Bryan Volpenhein Quotes

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Work
  • Mind

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
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  • Movie
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• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Talented
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• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
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• If the home is good, all will be good.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Home
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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Learn
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• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
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  • Chance

• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
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• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
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  • Problem

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Good
  • Important

• My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

  

  Sally Field
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  • Enough
  • Movies

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
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  • Process

• New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

  

  Barry Eisler
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  • Great
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• Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out there and network and get they recognition and they name out there. Sometimes people can get in the way of they own selves man, real talk.

  

  Earl Stevens
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• Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Character

• Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike.

  

  Don Zimmer
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  • Ball
  • Strike

• In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

  

  Bryan Volpenhein
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