John Varvatos Quotes

I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Down

• I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Soulmate

• The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music
  • History

• When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

  

  Chaley Rose
  • Great

• The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job

• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Good
  • Vacation

• I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

  

  Jimmy Johnson
  • Team
  • Football
  • Sports

• It is important to work. It is important for my mind.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mind

• 'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam.

  

  Antony Flew
  • World
  • Islam
  • Conquering

• Both of my children - my daughter Caroline, a public school teacher, and my son Elliot, an Army Ranger - are dedicating their lives to public service; thus, they have inspired my own decision to run for Congress.

  

  Ann Callis
  • Children
  • School
  • Decision

• I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • School
  • Rock
  • Bands

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Hope

• I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Inspired
  • Bands
  • Photos