Martine Syms Quotes

There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't.

Martine Syms

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CityMomentsYouKnowLivingWay

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessTodayProblemsFaceLong

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

John Waters

PeopleMeLaughEnoughEarlyDown

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Stanley Hauerwas

GoodReligionCreationCitizenCivil

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres

LeaderPeaceManWarMeBorn

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

Michael Polanyi

CommunityBodyPrinciplesWayThose

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Mira Nair

TreatYouStoneNeverFollowFully

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

Donald Hall

TechnologyPoetryPeopleThinkWrite

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

Debi Mazar

DinnerNightHusbandRestaurantDown

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Colm Keaveney

RespectPoliticsYouWantEarnGet

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Peter Carey

PastPainThinkNostalgiaSomething

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Peter Kreeft

GodYouExistenceConvinceMuslims

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

Rick Wagoner

JobGameEndLongYouPlay

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