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.

John Catsimatidis

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• 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 could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Myself
  • Find

• 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

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.

  

  David Zabel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • Home
  • Job

• I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Lost

• I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Up
  • Boy

• 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