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

• 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

• 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

• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Good
  • Mind
  • True

• When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • High
  • Dance
  • Worry

• I want to party in space because I make alien music.

  

  David Guetta
  • Music
  • Party
  • Space

• Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Laws

• Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced 'muscle fatigue,' lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, 'the ego in me' made the effort worthwhile.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Effort
  • Ego
  • Lifting

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Failure
  • Policies
  • Financiers

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

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Moving
  • Failure
  • Learned