Nancy Dunnan Quotes

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.

  

  Felice Picano
  • People
  • Book
  • Words

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Future
  • Try
  • Fix

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Story
  • Idea
  • Talent

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Financial
  • Decisions

• If Seth had read Mark's mind, this was an excellent progression. If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. And if Seth was a personification of my subconscious, then this would be an excellent example of subconscious fraud.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Deception

• By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

  

  Craig Brown

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Comfort

• The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • High
  • Risk
  • Fool