Marilyn Tavenner Quotes

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Marilyn Tavenner

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Red
  • Wine

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • American
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Electronic

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • She
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Book

• I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Band

• American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Success
  • Desire

• Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Question
  • Brain

• Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Question
  • Quality

• To be honest, I don't think there's any other show like 'Doctor Who' at all.

  

  Jenna-Louise Coleman

• Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Growing

• 23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Business
  • Coffee
  • Health care

• I meet people who can't get healthcare for their families, people who are just distressed over what is happening in our country. So when somebody asks me, "How do you get up?" it really triggered in me the feeling that that's what I want us all to think about each other. How do we get up? How do we pull on our shoes, go out and deal with the problems America faces. That's what I intend to do as president.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Health care
  • Families

• When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

  

  Arnold Kling
  • Government
  • Health care
  • Producer

• Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Stories

• CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

  

  Marilyn Tavenner
  • Health care