Gavin Creel Quotes
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
-
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
-
When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
-
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
-
Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
-
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
-
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
-
'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
-
It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
-
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
-
As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
-
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
-
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
-
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
-
I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
-
I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
-
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
-
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.
-
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.
-
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
-
I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.
-
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
