Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.Cornelius Vanderbilt
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant -
I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
Lance Henriksen -
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs -
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
Walt Mossberg -
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
Olivier Megaton
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
Taufik Hidayat -
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Zoe Saldana -
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel -
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen -
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
Rachel Joyce
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
Wayne Rogers -
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
Laura Esquivel -
I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
J. D. Souther -
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
Gary Locke
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
W. Edwards Deming -
I try hard to always question myself and wonder, 'What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?' The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.
Daniel Lubetzky -
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar -
I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
Xavier Becerra -
You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
Brady Jandreau -
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
Cornelius Vanderbilt