Alexa Von Tobel Quotes

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

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• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Bad
  • Working
  • Considered

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Love
  • Dress
  • Hat

• I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Achieve

• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • New
  • Engineering
  • Engineers

• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Style
  • Her
  • Toughness

• I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

  

  L. Frank Baum

• There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • People

• Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience

• I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Writing
  • Author

• I don't bash my company. I don't bash my opponents. I don't miss weight.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Dream

• Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

  

  Craig Armstrong
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • College

• All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

  

  Joel Sternfeld
  • Work
  • America
  • Society

• I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Black
  • Racism

• It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • World
  • Families
  • Homes

• A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • May
  • Forest

• Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel