Muhtar Kent Quotes

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

Muhtar Kent

• Time
• Children
• Burma
• Southeast

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Where

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • You
  • Here

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Fragrance

• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Stone
  • Sunrise
  • Rome

• I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Story
  • Talent

• I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Money
  • Home
  • Moments

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Up
  • Leadership
  • Goals

• I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Feel
  • Season
  • Stubborn

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

  

  Maeve Binchy

• Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Today

• The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Question

• There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Great

• I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Time
  • Work
  • Travel

• My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

  

  Muhtar Kent
  • Time
  • Children
  • Burma