Paul Mellon Quotes

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• I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Week

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Dislike

• I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Week
  • Healthy
  • Jeans

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Me

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• Un magnanimo cor morte non prezza,Presta o tarda che sia, pur che ben muora.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • America

• When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

  

  Paul Watson

• I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Guy
  • Gym
  • Snow

• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  

  James Sinegal

• I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Architecture

• 'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

  

  Claude Chabrol
  • Law
  • Study

• I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

  

  Brenda Fassie

• If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Today

• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • True
  • Pleasure

• There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

  

  Candice Olson
  • Thought
  • Wall
  • Start

• A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

  

  Paul Mellon
  • Unique
  • Masterpiece
  • Authentic