Ally Carter Quotes

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• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Never
  • Either
  • Acted

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Live
  • Feel
  • Broke

• You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Know

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Thinking

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • Up

• I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Value
  • Opinion

• Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Truth

• It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Power
  • True
  • Understanding

• Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Life
  • Time
  • True

• Pretend and it will be true.

  

  Ally Carter
  • True
  • Pretend