Jorge M. Perez Quotes

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

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• New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Moments
  • New York

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Culture
  • City
  • Walking

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• New York is a fantastic city.

  

  Marat Safin
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Career
  • Hard
  • Stuff

• Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Obstacles

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • City
  • Myself
  • Year

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Never

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • Work
  • Great
  • Country

• Square meals often make round people.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Round
  • Square

• 'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Fall

• I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Horse
  • White
  • Houses

• I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Career
  • City