Barrett Foa Quotes

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Attention
  • Day
  • End

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • China

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • City
  • Chicago

• I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Work
  • Women
  • Why

• Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

  

  Anita Desai
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Work
  • Space
  • Challenge

• Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Money
  • Goal