Michael Heisley Quotes

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

Michael Heisley

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• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Try

• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Adventure

• I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Interesting
  • Change
  • Season

• I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Think
  • Stress

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

  

  Larry David
  • Sometimes
  • Actions
  • Some

• I'd make a bad preacher.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Bad
  • Make
  • Preacher

• I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • True
  • Mother
  • Age

• One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Business

• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Running

• I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Support
  • Fighting

• I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to L.A., I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks, I got three movies. I was so excited, I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

  

  Estella Warren
  • Movies
  • Decided
  • Modelling

• I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Business
  • Companies
  • Operations