Christina Stead Quotes

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...

Christina Stead

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • You
  • Doubt

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Hollywood
  • Joke
  • Naked

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wealth
  • Lead
  • Inequalities

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.

  

  Brad Feld

• When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was new to the industry, and they wanted to get to know me.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Tree

• For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...

  

  Christina Stead
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Old Age