Corinne Maier Quotes

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Corinne Maier

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Very

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Very

• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Home
  • Stars
  • Pool

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story.

  

  Paul Sparks
  • Business
  • Relationships
  • Plays

• Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

  

  James Patterson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Up
  • Money
  • Society

• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

  

  Corinne Maier
  • Business
  • Society
  • Logic