Michael Corbat Quotes

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Michael Corbat

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• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Roll

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Me
  • Building
  • Brand

• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fly
  • Really
  • Fishing

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Successful
  • Sacrifice
  • Busy

• Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happiness

• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • God
  • Sports
  • Training

• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Country
  • Today
  • Loved

• A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • World
  • Support
  • Growth

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Play
  • Listen

• How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Suffering
  • Regret

• With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Doing

• Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • American
  • Guy
  • Culture

• Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • You
  • Language

• I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Work
  • Help
  • Age

• I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • Life
  • School
  • Drama

• When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

  

  Jack Roy
  • Face
  • Doctor
  • Twins

• If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

  

  Michael Corbat
  • Football
  • Exposure
  • Scholarship