Jon Taffer Quotes

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

Jon Taffer

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FailureExcusesLookSameAlways

In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'

Jidenna

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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Jessica Lange

WorkLoveActingExtraordinaryBeen

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Jerome Kern

MusicWriteLyricsBothSituations

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

Joel Edgerton

GoodPeopleSome PeoplePlayingStar

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Melissa Etheridge

FreedomSoulSweetLonelyMy Soul

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

John Maynard Keynes

SuccessBeautifulWarCapitalism

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.

Robert Crippen

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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

PoetryFriendsSeriousSpecialOver

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Livy

HonorFallDesireSometimesMore

You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.

Dolores O'Riordan

WomenMusicGirlYouKnowGroup

For more than a century, New York City has been home to a constellation of department stores whose openings, closings, and transformations have charted the fortunes and foibles of the city itself.

Christina Binkley

HomeNew YorkCityNewMoreBeen

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

Winfried Vahland

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