Albert Hadley Quotes
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
Quotes to Explore
-
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
-
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
-
My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
-
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
-
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
-
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
-
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
-
Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
-
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
-
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
-
I use Redken color on my hair and use mild shampoos that don't strip your hair of color. If I need to, I'll use a good colored mousse in between.
-
A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
-
There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.
-
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
-
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
-
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
-
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
-
We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
-
The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
-
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
