Carmen Busquets Quotes

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Why
  • You

• You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Why
  • Dark
  • Comfort

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Vote
  • Against
  • Circumstance

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Truth
  • Problem

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Start
  • Risks

• I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Weird
  • Kid
  • Roles

• A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Road
  • Battle
  • Won

• President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Revolution

• In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says,

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Great
  • She
  • Experience

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Perfect
  • Hair
  • Effort

• So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Perfect
  • Proud