Sidney Sheldon Quotes

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

Sidney Sheldon

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• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Bold
  • Felt
  • Fearless

• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom

• I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Job
  • Losing

• Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

  

  Barbara Park
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Good
  • Believe
  • You

• What troubles me about the 'hostile workplace' category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Workplace

• His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Ignorance

• What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Celebrity

• I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music

• The musicians in the band, and myself as a performer, love the risks of the unpredictable and the feeling of jumping off cliffs musically.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Feeling
  • Band

• When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Kids

• Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Political
  • Professional

• I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

  

  Pink
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Poetry

• I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • World
  • Friends
  • College

• I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  

  John Cleese
  • People
  • Friends

• My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Time
  • Same
  • Genius

• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  

  David Cameron
  • Up
  • America

• To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

  

  Sidney Sheldon
  • Friends
  • Successful
  • Enemies