Andrew X. Pham Quotes

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

Andrew X. Pham

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• Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Always
  • Moment

• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Family
  • Me
  • Always

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Woman

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Think
  • Like
  • Gold

• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Mother

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Music
  • Long
  • Need

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

  

  Moliere
  • World
  • Affair

• The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Effort

• Sometimes you are faced with moments in life that literally scare you to death. But if what you love or believe matters enough? You will own it.

  

  Carl Lentz
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Will

• I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

  

  David Gordon Green
  • People
  • Children
  • Interesting

• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Compassion

• The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

  

  Andrew X. Pham
  • Perfection
  • Intention
  • Matters