Avi Quotes

I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.

Avi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1937

Topics

I AmNew YorkCityMeSisterName

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

Joan Rivers

DietClothesYouLikeTailored

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

Joel Grey

SpeakNeverLearnedEverYiddish

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

LifeLiveMy LifeTryJustThing

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

Angela Braly

HealthPoliticsCareHealth Care

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Michael J. Saylor

GoodTechnologyTeacherQuestions

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

InnovationIdeasEnergyOpportunities

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

EducationGreatDisciplineMindEnd

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Russell Peters

DoingCareerStopMoviesHollywood

I don't believe in public companies... I would prefer to risk my own money, make any necessary changes fast and grow as quickly as possible.

Roustam Tariko

MoneyBelieveGrowFastPossible

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

Michael Weatherly

TimeGreenNameStandYouHoney

I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte.

Lou Doillon

GoodMotherLipstickLooksBlush

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

Lizzy Caplan

YourselfPerformanceDirectionYou

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