Emily Weiss Quotes

I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.

Emily Weiss

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I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

PeopleMeFindSeriouslyTakeOdd

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

John Fleming

LawBadWhenever

The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

Ana Ortiz

NatureTimeQualityBalanceNew York

Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don't want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be.

Steve James

ProgressThinkingWantDevelopment

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Stefan Zweig

FateMoreNeverEvenGenerousGrant

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.

Steve McManaman

WorldGameFeelYouEarlyHeat

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Steve Swallow

PlaySeeI SeePlayingBeforeActs

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Robert Byrd

MenLawNeverNationCruelLaws

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

Chris Evans

LifeLoveHappinessPeaceMindMe

I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

LoveDoingWantMoviesSeeJust

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.

Cheech Marin

LifeMeMy LifeTalkingUnderstand

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

Asa Larsson

FatherGreatChildMeBookBad

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