Joe Lhota Quotes

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

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• I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Best

• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Culture
  • Detail

• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Love
  • Evil

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Team
  • Never
  • Give

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Love
  • Will

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Life
  • Love
  • Walking

• If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Thanks

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • True
  • Fear

• Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Book
  • Best
  • Flower

• If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

  

  John Lone
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Stories

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Family
  • Depression
  • Adolescence

• I was the first one in my family to go to college.

  

  Joe Lhota
  • Family
  • College