Coco Chanel Quotes

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Computers
  • Trial
  • Fees

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• 'Coexist' was tough to make.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Make
  • Tough
  • Coexist

• I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Military
  • Animals

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Healthy
  • Torture

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Time
  • Help
  • Energy

• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Men
  • Me
  • Shoes

• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • News
  • Excited
  • Entertainment

• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

  

  Lynn Nottage

• I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Ideas

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work

• Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Work
  • Eggs
  • Gentleness