Suzanne de Passe Quotes

I consider myself a product of Berry Gordy, but not a clone... He and I are always friends and colleagues, and I will always revere him as a mentor and boss. Though, of course, I'm always struggling for more equal footing.

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• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Year
  • Graduation

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Down

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Reality

• The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Baby

• The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Space

• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Political
  • Energy
  • Balance

• I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Hand

• It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Fashion
  • Scared
  • Overlook

• The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Idea

• I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Bad

• I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

  

  Matt Ryan
  • Trying
  • Character
  • True

• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  

  Andrew Mellon

• I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I get up very early and write a lot.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Up

• Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Copy
  • Stylish

• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  

  Beatrix Campbell
  • Politics
  • I Love
  • Republican

• I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Try
  • Personal

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Genius

• I consider myself a product of Berry Gordy, but not a clone... He and I are always friends and colleagues, and I will always revere him as a mentor and boss. Though, of course, I'm always struggling for more equal footing.

  

  Suzanne de Passe
  • Product
  • Mentor
  • Clone