Alexa Von Tobel Quotes
When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
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The world is always in movement.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I don't do negative things.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.
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If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
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When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
