Elizabeth Diller Quotes

We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

Elizabeth Diller

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• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• One moment cannot be the most important.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Important
  • Moment
  • Most

• It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fall

• I like to show that I'm real.

  

  Maluma
  • Real
  • Like
  • Show

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Focus

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Style
  • Confidence

• We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Little
  • Where

• A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Different
  • You
  • Direction

• Be yourself. The world worships the original.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • World
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

  

  Val Guest
  • Character
  • Said
  • Bond

• As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Cutting

• Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Politics

• We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Need
  • Networks
  • Download

• And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question

• I have fond memories of all things Henson. I grew up on the stuff. My mom's a massive fan and made sure it was a part of my upbringing.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Memories

• People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Kind
  • Knows

• It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Confidence
  • Three
  • Albums

• I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  

  Deng Xiaoping
  • Political

• We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

  

  Elizabeth Diller