L. Whitney Clayton Quotes

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

L. Whitney Clayton

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• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Real
  • Business
  • Character

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Kids
  • Growing
  • Thought

• You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Home
  • Night
  • End

• Just when I thought things couldn’t get any stranger, I was proven wrong.

  

  Kage Baker

• Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Future
  • Science

• I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Time
  • Good
  • Lyrics

• I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Sweet

• I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • Home

• If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Boiling
  • Electron
  • Temperatures

• On Fox News, Donald Trump said Obama's birth certificate could indicate that he's a Muslim. Trump said he doesn't trust anyone with a foreign-sounding name, and neither does his daughter Ivanka.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trust
  • Daughter
  • Trump

• From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.

  

  Hale Appleman
  • Actor
  • Stuff
  • Vocal shows

• Now her coat drags through the water,Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnowsIn the magnetic embrace,Balletic and glacial, of Bear's insatiable shadow.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Life
  • Water
  • Shadow

• Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

  

  L. Whitney Clayton