Ricky Van Veen Quotes

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

Ricky Van Veen

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• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Money
  • Will

• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

  

  Jack London
  • Dog
  • Charity
  • Hungry

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Prison

• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Change
  • Stop

• What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Want
  • Building

• 'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• During the corona crisis, football darts would be a good option because we're only training in small groups. I'll have to suggest it to Julian Nagelsmann. It's fun, and we need to be really accurate.

  

  Timo Werner
  • Training
  • Option
  • Coronavirus

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Real
  • Crazy
  • Personality

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

  

  Ricky Van Veen
  • Real
  • Money
  • Idea