Cynthia Breazeal Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
-
Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
-
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
-
At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
-
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
-
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
-
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
-
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
-
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
-
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
-
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
-
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
-
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
-
Making music is fantastic.
-
I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
-
I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.
-
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
-
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
-
I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
-
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
