Isabel Sanford Quotes

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Isabel Sanford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1917 - July 9, 2004

Topics

SuccessBusinessWomanLookingBlack

The word 'Playboy' alone doesn't exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.

Joanna Krupa

WomenAloneArtEndWarmFeeling

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Joan Collins

LifeYouLemonadeLemonMakeThrows

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Maya Angelou

SonHeartManStrongLovingYoung

When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.

Anand Mahindra

YouCompetitiveSellForcesMost

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Mary Karr

ThinkArtistBackKindWayVirtue

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we're actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else.

Mikko Hypponen

TimeCompetitionFierceMarketing

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

Mike Birbiglia

LifeBestMeThoughtAdviceSomeone

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

Molly Sims

WorkFamilyGreatPeopleYouBecome

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

Logan Henderson

LoveGirlHumorMeSweetLaugh

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

LifeGrowthChildrenPovertyReal

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

Chelsea Cain

IssuesSuckerProtagonistScrewed-Up

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

Chuck Palahniuk

ThoughtWriteAlwaysTurnedRetired

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