Alfred Mele Quotes

Whenever agents act intentionally, there is something they are effectively motivated to do.

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• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Really

• I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Movie
  • Technology
  • Feel

• My friends are gone and My hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • Sister

• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  

  David Hume
  • Christian
  • Philosophical

• A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Song
  • Simple

• I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama

• I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • House

• I don't like the term 'voice-over.'

  

  Lucille Bliss

• The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Work
  • Great
  • Why

• I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Movie

• I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Different
  • Singing
  • Journey

• I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Up
  • Baseball

• If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • May

• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Motivated

• The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Work
  • Character
  • Guy

• Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Whenever agents act intentionally, there is something they are effectively motivated to do.

  

  Alfred Mele
  • Motivated
  • Agents
  • Effectively