Adena Friedman Quotes

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Simply

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Church
  • Obedience

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nice

• A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

  

  Thomas Mitchell Morris
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Desire

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Giving

• In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • Government
  • Fathers

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Learning