John T. Chambers Quotes

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

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• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Memories

• What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Art
  • Future

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Trying
  • Character
  • America

• I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Guy
  • Right
  • Two

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blame

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Life
  • Care
  • Skin

• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Joy

• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  

  Lady Gaga

• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

  

  Alex Berenson

• I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living increases will exceed income. The cost of living will also go up because all kinds of taxes will increase.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Trying

• Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers

• I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

  

  John T. Chambers