Genevieve Bell Quotes

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

Genevieve Bell

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• I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
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  • Girl

• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
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  • Black

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
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  • Color

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
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  • Thinking

• I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • College

• Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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  • Feeling

• It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
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• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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  • Heart
  • Night

• When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. Chagall stated this in 1950

  

  Marc Chagall
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  • Father
  • Parents

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Thinking

• If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

  

  Lucas Black
  • Life
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  • Thinking

• We don't know what we are going to do with this. It's really random with all the ways that we're thinking. Some are very literal and some are very non-literal, but we have no idea where we're going right now.

  

  Dustin Kensrue
  • Thinking
  • Going
  • Ways

• The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

  

  Karl Friedrich Bahrdt
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Humanity

• There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Dance

• The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

  

  Brad Templeton
  • Views
  • Microsoft
  • Tanks

• There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

  

  Genevieve Bell
  • Thinking
  • Looking
  • Around