Harvey S. Firestone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
-
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
-
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
-
I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
-
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
-
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
-
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
-
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
-
I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.
-
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
-
Jane Campion is a tough director.
-
I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
-
When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
-
I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
-
What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.
-
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
-
Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
-
My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.
-
John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people’s faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.
-
On the birther movement: Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
-
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
