Lee Siegel Quotes

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Lee Siegel

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• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Failure

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Prison
  • Superstar

• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Romantic
  • Sense

• In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Know
  • Fiction

• I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Training

• I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Acting

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Think
  • Characters
  • Qualities

• Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Ignore

• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  

  Charles R. Morris
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Character
  • Nice

• If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Light
  • Greatness
  • Daily Work

• I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

  

  David Packard

• I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.

  

  Brett Dier
  • Movie

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  Lee Siegel