John Catsimatidis Quotes

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Club
  • Decent
  • Parking

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Kind
  • Kid
  • Shy

• I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • Still
  • Anymore

• All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Long
  • Words

• It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Me
  • Difficult

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Same

• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Love
  • Free
  • For Her

• I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Deep

• McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • School
  • High

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• To all those who've tried to belong, and just didn't fit in you are loved. To all those who've tried to stand out and be heard you're admired. To all those who've tried to be themselves, only to be shut down you are supported. To all those who've tried to kill themselves because life's unfairyoure NOT alone. Love your friends, love your enemies, because in the end, they'll all be kissing your ass when you make it.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Learned
  • Wrong
  • Move

• It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Energy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Ford
  • Chrysler
  • Henry Ford

• New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

  

  John Catsimatidis