Adelaide Clemens Quotes

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

Adelaide Clemens

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• The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • Black
  • Girl

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Direction

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Going
  • Worship
  • Places

• When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Road

• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Age

• What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Child
  • Down
  • Tragedy

• Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Realize

• Over the years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Small
  • Gun

• The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Experience
  • Gentleman

• Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Long

• There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • My Life
  • Romance
  • Endurance

• You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Activity
  • Enzymes

• The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • People
  • Style

• I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

  

  Adelaide Clemens