Allegra Versace Quotes

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

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• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Different
  • You
  • Him

• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Dreams
  • False
  • Tales

• When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Mean
  • Week
  • Class

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Live
  • Jesus
  • Name

• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Know
  • Rest

• The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Beauty
  • Fairness

• New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • City
  • Leader

• The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • House
  • Food
  • Unique

• People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Nasty
  • Continue

• I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Attention

• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Unhappy

• This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Sun
  • Ego

• Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Lost

• Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • Life
  • Help
  • Death

• She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Work
  • She

• If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

  

  Allegra Versace