Amity Shlaes Quotes

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• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Why
  • Change
  • Three

• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Man
  • Know
  • Woman

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Better

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Struggle

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Alone
  • Karaoke

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Inspired

• I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Think
  • Free

• I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Body
  • See

• If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Artist
  • Fight
  • Choice

• It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Home
  • Remember

• With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Trust

• I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

  

  John R. Allen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Focus

• Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

  

  John Norman
  • Men
  • True
  • Free

• I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Men
  • History
  • Control

• If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

  

  Amity Shlaes