Anne Makepeace Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
-
I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
-
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
-
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
-
I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
-
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
-
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
-
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
-
When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
-
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
-
The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
-
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
-
You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
-
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
-
What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
-
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
-
There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
-
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
-
Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
-
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
-
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
-
Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.
-
What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?
-
It's really, really hard to watch people struggling and not want to fix it.
