Babe Paley Quotes

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

Babe Paley

• Me
• Always
• Deliberately
• Matching
• Cautiously

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Me
  • Coach

• That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

  

  Gary Carter
  • World
  • Me
  • Winning

• I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Look
  • Rap

• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Thoughts
  • Look
  • Fools

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• For me, opposition is just another opposition.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Black
  • Me
  • Know

• The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Always
  • Capacity
  • Curious

• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Facebook
  • Spy

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Say
  • Sushi

• I've always been a huge reggae fan.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Always
  • Been
  • Reggae

• The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Forget
  • Eating
  • Watching

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately