Cynthia Weil Quotes

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.

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• Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Discover

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hard Work

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Business
  • Parents

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Health
  • Myself
  • Wise

• I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Family
  • Success
  • Foundation

• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Me
  • Democracy

• The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Path

• I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Own
  • Excited
  • My Own

• Laughter is America's most important export.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Important
  • America
  • Laughter

• It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Violence

• For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Life
  • Work
  • Forever

• It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Sport
  • Motto
  • Iron Man

• He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Movie

• After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Kind
  • Moving

• Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Water

• We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.

  

  Cynthia Weil