Gene Robinson Quotes

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

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• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

  

  Abdallah Salem el-Badri
  • Start
  • Need
  • Invest

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Want
  • Just
  • Girlfriend

• We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

  

  Donella Meadows

• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Picture
  • Beauty

• Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • People
  • Walking

• With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Italian

• I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Life
  • Live
  • Running

• The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

  

  Gene Robinson
  • Live
  • Home
  • Confused