Alexa Von Tobel Quotes

Since the beginning of LearnVest, I've never left the office for food.

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• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Good
  • Understand

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Career
  • Want

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Work
  • School
  • Team

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Thoughts
  • Choice
  • Express

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Car
  • Someone

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

  

  T.I.
  • Independent
  • Agent
  • Sponsors

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Job
  • Working
  • Open

• 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Past
  • Comedy
  • Luck

• Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • History
  • Political
  • Literature

• No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

  

  Peter Mayle
  • Food

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• Since the beginning of LearnVest, I've never left the office for food.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Food
  • Beginning