Kiersten White Quotes
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.Kiersten White
Quotes to Explore
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann -
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
Laura Benanti -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
Olivia Colman
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I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami -
The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
Gary Cole -
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
Wanda Sykes -
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
Carla Bruni -
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Wayne Brady
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace -
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver -
When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett -
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Olivia Wilde -
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.
Lindsey Buckingham -
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
Tom Stoppard -
The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
Ted Cruz -
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Mason Cooley -
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
Kiersten White