K. D. Lang Quotes
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.K. D. Lang
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty -
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Gary Hamel -
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
Queen Latifah -
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
L'Wren Scott -
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert
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I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
Carly Craig -
I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
Gary Numan -
Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
Victoria Pendleton -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
Kapil Dev -
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
Jack Welch -
It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
Larry Ellison -
The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
Usher -
A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
Paris Jackson -
What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.
Kage Baker -
I'm a work in progress.
Barbra Streisand
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
Larry David -
To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
Lili Taylor -
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount -
I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn’t enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.
Mary Martin -
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.
Alycia Debnam-Carey -
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
K. D. Lang