William Hamilton Maxwell Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill -
People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
Tara Reid -
I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
Tavi Gevinson -
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
Zara Phillips -
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Gabrielle Union -
The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
Pardis Sabeti -
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
Jack Ma -
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
L'Wren Scott
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
Bat for Lashes -
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
Oscar Niemeyer -
You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
R. Kelly -
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Zaha Hadid -
I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
Rachel Roy -
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn
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I've got the hottest brand in the world.
Donald Trump -
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
Natasha Trethewey -
No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
Peter Greenaway -
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
Peter Drucker -
The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
William Hamilton Maxwell