Sara Blakely Quotes

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

Sara Blakely

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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Power
  • Friends

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Hair
  • Hat

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Time
  • First

• I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Change
  • Wish

• I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • People
  • Different
  • Attitude

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Resolution

• I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Think
  • Fame

• My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Good
  • Health

• Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Children
  • Alone

• To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Different
  • Imagination

• Meditating were my thoughts On the vain poetry of the bards of Brython. Making the best of themselves in the chief convention. Enough, the care of the smith’s sledge-hammer. I am in want of a stick, straitened in song, The fold of the bards, who knows it not?

  

  Taliesin
  • Song
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

  

  Dennis Wilson
  • Mom

• Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Soul
  • Breath
  • Welcome

• The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laughing