Alvin Adams Quotes

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • America
  • Weird

• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Said

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Reason

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Up
  • Why

• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Today

• I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

  

  Bill Condon
  • Up
  • God
  • Couple

• The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Reason
  • Forever
  • Lesson

• Silicon Valley has been developing as a startup community for over 60-70 years. This notion that you can create something in two or five years is foolish.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Community

• My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

  

  Alvin Adams
  • Different