Barbara Cubin Quotes

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

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• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Gang

• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Piano

• I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • You
  • End

• Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Past
  • Story
  • Dramatic

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Home
  • Find

• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Language
  • Same

• I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Records
  • Hit

• To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Stupid
  • Lazy

• Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

  

  Haddon W. Robinson

• I would thank God, but I don't believe in it... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything... All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Moment
  • Don't Believe
  • Thank God

• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Strong
  • Policy
  • Capability

• The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

  

  Barbara Cubin
  • President
  • Activities
  • Apologized