Alexander Masters Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
-
If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
-
There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
-
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
-
There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
-
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-
The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
-
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-
I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
-
I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
-
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
-
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
-
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-
There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
-
I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
-
All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
-
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
-
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
-
Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
-
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
-
The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
-
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.
-
What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?
