Xaviera Hollander Quotes

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

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• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • Company
  • Down

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Government
  • Recovery
  • Principal

• I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Aging

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Home
  • Friends

• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Business
  • City
  • Successful

• A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Real
  • Think
  • Baseball

• Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Learn
  • Habit
  • Fame

• Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Children
  • Woman
  • Born

• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Music
  • Country
  • Inside

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art

• If you intellectualize the idea of marriage, it can be quite daunting, no matter how much in love you are.

  

  David Frankel
  • Marriage

• The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Independent

• To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• As a rookie, they don't really know your name.

  

  Edwin Jackson

• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Sadness

• You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

  

  Xaviera Hollander