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Tim Gunn Quotes

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1953

Topics

Listening Perception Understanding

Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Girl American Out Guy Activity Get

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

Skill First Kid Industry Film Model

Literature births activists.

Literature Activists

I must admit, my old tribe is not unanimous on the view I've taken, but there are other folks like me, other former directors of the NSA who have said building in backdoors universally in Apple or other devices actually is bad for America. I think we can all agree it's bad for American privacy.

Me Building Think American View Bad

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

Michael Eric Dyson

Music Deep Chocolate American Genius

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

John Ratzenberger

Children Day Mind End Of The Day End

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Meaning Become Get Who Our Lives

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

Light Water Ocean Fish Sound Right

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character Quality Man Possible Going

I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.

Donatella Versace

Feel High Heels Naked Without High

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

Anneliese van der Pol

Love People Laugh Being Make Able

My background in promoting martial arts started in 1985 when we were doing PK Karate, which was on ESPN. Fast forward to when mixed martial arts became legal in California. I made the jump to MMA and never looked back.

Forward Legal Doing Back Fast Jump

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