Nikki Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley) Quotes

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Nikki Haley

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Trying
  • She
  • Culture

• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Grow

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Work
  • School
  • Money

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Action

• Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Space
  • Goals

• You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Story
  • Chapter

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Long
  • Family
  • Name

• All change is relative. The universe is expanding relatively to our common material standards; our material standards are shrinking relatively to the size of the universe. The theory of the 'expanding universe' might also be called the theory of the 'shrinking atom'. <...>

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Universe

• Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Everyday

• Some days I have off like Thursday and Sunday but typically Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are dedicated to training if I'm in fight camp.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Training
  • Sunday
  • Saturday

• I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Time
  • Country
  • Air

• I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success.

  

  David F. D'Alessandro
  • Business
  • Success
  • Simply

• Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Business
  • Parent