Monty Hall Quotes

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

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• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Good
  • School
  • Friends

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wounded

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

  

  Babyface
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Quality

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • Peace
  • Terrorism

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • New

• 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Job
  • Respect
  • Self

• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Path
  • Start

• We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• It's nowhere in here And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be, But I'm stuck here getting misty over you I'm alone on a bicycle for two.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Alone

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Achievement

• I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

  

  Kesha
  • Mind
  • High
  • Dance

• I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Player

• An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Power
  • Value

• I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as 'Dallas' starring Larry Hagman and the cast.' And at this point in my career - I was in my mid to late 30s - I thought, 'Now is the time when it's hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.'

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Time
  • Career
  • End

• When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Moving
  • Following
  • Leading

• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Career
  • Film
  • Goal

• Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Success
  • Fighting
  • Opponent

• Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

  

  Monty Hall
  • Success
  • Years
  • Actually