Mike Medavoy Quotes

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Mike Medavoy

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• I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Money
  • Care

• I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Roles
  • Most

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Swimming
  • Naked

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up
  • School
  • Fire

• I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Life
  • City
  • Chicago

• My childhood dream? To play at Real Madrid. In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there. It will be complicated, but it sits in a corner of my head.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Fear

• The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Up
  • Job

• I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Kind
  • Religious
  • Calling

• Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Trying
  • Moment
  • Making

• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

  

  Mike Medavoy
  • Trust
  • Making
  • Calling