John Fusco Quotes
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
-
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
-
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
-
Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
-
I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
-
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
-
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
-
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
-
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
-
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
-
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
-
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
-
Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
-
I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
-
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
-
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
-
As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.
-
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
-
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
-
I know that I have this platform with our fans and with social media and all of that good stuff. I really hope that people become more aware of premature birth, and I hope there's more that can be done to prevent this.
-
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
