Max de Pree Quotes

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Song
  • Apology

• We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Past

• He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Power
  • Audience
  • Radio

• People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Up

• I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Party

• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Random

• The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Power
  • Dirty

• If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Blonde

• Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • World

• At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

  

  Adepero Oduye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Career

• For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

  

  James Mattis

• It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Amazing

• I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Writing

• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Holocaust

• I'm just a citizen of the world.

  

  Jeff Berwick
  • World

• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Done
  • College
  • Rock

• We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

  

  Max de Pree