Carolina Kostner Quotes

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

Carolina Kostner

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• I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Study
  • Rich

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Know
  • Like
  • Concept

• Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Written
  • Favorite
  • Here

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Election
  • Advance
  • Auction

• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Parents
  • Weird
  • Creative

• Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Sometimes

• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Idea

• 'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Gentleman

• American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• Nabby Adams, supine on the bed, grunted. It was four o’clock in the morning and he did not want to be talking. He had had a confused coloured dream about Bombay, shot with sharp pangs of unpaid bills. Over it all had brooded thirst, thirst for a warmish bottle of Tiger beer. Or Anchor. Or Carlsberg. He said, 'Did you bring any beer back with you?'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Dream
  • Morning
  • Confused

• Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

  

  Edward Young
  • Sun
  • Wishes

• I think, politically, for the House Democrats, we face that same danger here, whether currently indictable or not, it is clear that the President has, at a minimum, engaged in highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior which does not bring honor to the office he holds.

  

  Steve Lynch Autograph
  • President
  • Democrats

• When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • World
  • War

• I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Audience

• People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • People
  • Success
  • Animal

• It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

  

  Carolina Kostner