Brenda Novak Quotes

Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • True
  • Reason
  • Like

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Real
  • Government
  • Down

• I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Women
  • Done
  • Reality

• All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • Children

• Food is a big part of my life.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Life
  • Food

• I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Water

• To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

  

  Jacqueline Cochran
  • Live
  • Death
  • Risk

• I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

  

  Arno Penzias

• What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • Job
  • Funny

• Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.

  

  Joe Craft

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Way
  • Try
  • Succeed

• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.

  

  David Quammen

• AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Great
  • Business
  • Question

• Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Experience
  • Judgement