Sara Blakely Quotes

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

Sara Blakely

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• I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Game

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Driving
  • London

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • See
  • Look

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Love
  • Warm

• I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Business
  • Care

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?

  

  Alice Walker
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Humble

• If I write the song, I get to name it.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Up
  • Trying

• What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi

• Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Art
  • Passion

• People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I make homemade juices with whatever is in season. I rarely have coffee, but I drink lots of tea. I start with a pot of tea at home and sip on herbal teas throughout the day at work.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Work
  • Home
  • Coffee

• I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • People
  • Long
  • Cutting