Les Wexner Quotes

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

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• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Day
  • Two
  • Debate

• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Forget

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Law
  • Respect

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Today
  • Game
  • Player

• Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.

  

  Ed Cunningham
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Grandmother

• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Time
  • Work
  • Short

• I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Dying

• For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Wife
  • Identity
  • Haters

• In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

  

  Les Wexner
  • Important
  • America
  • Quality