Exene Cervenka Quotes

I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

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• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Birds
  • Racing

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Society
  • Young
  • Will

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• For me, I always try to make it to the final.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• I always try to live in the moment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Try

• I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Long

• I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Why
  • Help

• Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • You
  • Focus
  • Customers

• I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Gangster

• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  

  Christiane Amanpour

• Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

  

  Keith Henson
  • Women
  • Stock

• Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Love
  • Fans
  • Affection

• I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

  

  Exene Cervenka
  • Friends
  • Isolationist