Alain Wertheimer Quotes

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

Alain Wertheimer

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DreamsBusinessSellingPleasure

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

Jim Sullivan

LoveFriendScienceBestBest Friend

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton

LightDarknessGardeningFlowers

I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.

Michael Imperioli

TimeJobHatLongLong TimeNever

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Steven Pinker

BrainMeaningYouSoundEmotionRaw

Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn't even know.

Tom Holland

ScienceSchoolMeNameFakeKnow

The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.

Robert F. Engle

ChangeSunshineRisksEatingFlying

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Roger Ailes

CultureDefendShouldReinforce

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Don Kardong

HeartJusticeDayDarknessMind

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

Bobby Vinton

LiveTimeThreeNervousFirst Time

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

WorkHealthPeopleMeTalkLittle

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

Shelley Hennig

PeopleRandomComputersBetterGo

An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

PowerStressWorldStartConfident

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