Jon Taffer Quotes

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

Jon Taffer

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SuccessRespectThinkBetterYou

We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

Jesse Williams

WomenMenBlackLittleReturnGet

I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.

Meghan Daum

WorkDirectionSometimesHardRadio

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

WarPossibleHumanEnemiesLarge

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

DayFinancePeopleNightDecisions

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

Tony Scott

PeopleSayingThoughtLanguageYou

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

MoneyCompassionGovernmentPeople

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

Johnny Weir

AthleteEatJustLikeMuchShould

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Christian Lacroix

GenerationHouseParisDressedOut

I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.

Brad Goreski

LoveBeautifulSpaceFurnitureLook

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Art Hoppe

GodNextUpWhoKleenexPops

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Aretha Franklin

WomanHairNeedBigBig Hair

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

PainPeopleChampionGrowSomeone

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