Shawn Achor Quotes
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
Vera Wang -
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson -
I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
Sam Smith -
I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
Ice T -
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser -
You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas -
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy -
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts -
I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
Victoria Justice -
In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
Valerie Simpson -
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V. S. Naipaul
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar Wilde -
I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
Nathan Sawaya -
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
John Cusack -
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.
Jane March
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I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
John Rocha -
Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
John Ashcroft -
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
J. Tillman -
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers -
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Shawn Achor