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

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• 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

• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• 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

• When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Sex

• Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Guy

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Dressed

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

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Perfect
  • Proud