Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
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• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Book
  • Said
  • Blind

• If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Doing
  • Misery
  • Don't Love

• I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Judge
  • Boxing

• Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
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• 'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Judge

• ‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Important
  • Attitude

• You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • Today
  • Fall
  • Drunk

• I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • War
  • Hate

• Do you want to be the girl that's envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don't know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Girl
  • Value

• I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Food

• And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Education

• One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Friends
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• The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Pressure

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?

  

  Jeff Beck
  • Up

• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • World
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• I wanted to join a company where I woke up every morning and felt happy : I wanted to build a better solution to deliver happiness to the WebEx customers, that's it.

  

  Eric Yuan
  • Morning
  • Company
  • Wanted

• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
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