Amber Valletta Quotes

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

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• When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Year
  • Achievement

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Miracle
  • Kid
  • Take

• Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Know

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

  

  OMI
  • Appreciation
  • Been
  • Far

• Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Emotion
  • Everyone
  • Temper

• I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Lost

• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • World
  • Music
  • Imagination

• Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • Black
  • Control
  • Gay

• Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Today

• I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Today