Caryl Rivers Quotes

On the Barbie doll: Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

Caryl Rivers

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• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Today
  • Light
  • Sports

• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Crazy
  • Myself
  • Wise

• When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Different
  • Way
  • Opportunity

• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Power
  • Imagination

• I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Love
  • Fun

• Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Deferred

• Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Real

• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Cold

• My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Work
  • Live
  • House

• Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Sacrifice

• When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Done
  • Weird

• No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• I want to disappear in a role.

  

  Frankie Shaw

• It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • High
  • Game

• On the Barbie doll: Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Trying
  • Values
  • Wardrobe