Baden Powell Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal -
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Harold Pinter -
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 -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
Paloma Faith -
There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
Iris Apfel
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
Mandy Moore -
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
Olivia Wilde -
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
Rachel Weisz -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp -
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid
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Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
Patti Stanger -
Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.
Ashton Kutcher -
We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
Patty Jenkins -
When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.
Martha Stewart -
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Octavio Paz -
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
Baden Powell