Aileen Lee Quotes
Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.Aileen Lee
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks -
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler -
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
Frances Fisher -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
Caity Lotz -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy -
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
Nancy Farmer
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
Tara Brach -
The wonderful thing with some of the things I've done - most of them, really - is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!
Adam West -
You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
Jon Jones -
Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
Aileen Lee