Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1953

Topics

LifeAloneMeStoryYouLife Story

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

John Collison

TechnologyPeopleBuildingBetter

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

WorkFamilyJobPeopleFeelYou

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

Michael Bacon

LifeWorldRockAlwaysFootWhole

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

Soledad O'Brien

YouCareerNowSayWantPoint

I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.

Troy Carter

San FranciscoUberOnlyInvestedSan

Women's rights are women's rights. One of the things that woke me up was equal pay. I started thinking about it: Who is the leader of women? Take me to your leader. And there were no leaders.

Rose McGowan

LeaderWomenMeThinkingEqualPay

Before 'Panda,' I had a buzz already.

Desiigner

BuzzBeforeHad

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Christian Marclay

GreatTogetherYouTakeSomething

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

DayPeopleRealityEndLaughMovies

When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

Arancha Gonzalez

FutureFoodHelpCreatingHeadMay

Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

Phoebe Robinson

FunnyPotentialSomeoneYouMore

You can't write something to please someone.

Sean Durkin

SomeoneYouWriteSomethingPlease

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