Alberto Tomba Quotes

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

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• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Unique
  • Poverty
  • Youth

• Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Character
  • You

• So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Growing
  • Eye
  • Grapes

• My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Parents
  • Golf
  • Interest

• There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Child
  • Find

• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Boxing

• When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

  

  David Suzuki
  • House
  • Parents
  • Rain

• I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

  

  Benh Zeitlin

• I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

  

  Kirsten Prout
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Age

• The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • History

• Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • People
  • Remember

• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Photography

• I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

  

  James Lipton
  • People
  • Important
  • Strong

• Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

  

  Anne Sweeney

• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Passion
  • Mouths

• You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets themoney because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Time
  • Long
  • Term

• "You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

  

  George Ohsawa
  • Nothing
  • Whole
  • Herbs

• I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

  

  Alberto Tomba