Amby Burfoot Quotes

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Feel

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Clever

• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • Different
  • American

• Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Long
  • Remember

• I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Red

• There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Shoes

• The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Character

• Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Dying

• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power

• I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Time
  • Power
  • Age

• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • People
  • Deception

• No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

  

  Elizabeth Holmes
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

  

  Isabella Lovin
  • Change
  • Social
  • Midwife

• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Change
  • Single
  • Moving

• We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Surprise
  • Technique

• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Moving
  • Failure
  • Learned