Elana Meyers Quotes

If I'm honest, the thing I remember the most was the team mascot, Freddie the Falcon. I really remember there was a McDonald's nearby, and I remember eating a cheeseburger in the playground when the Falcon appeared. I'm not sure my dad appreciates that being my favorite memory of him playing.

Elana Meyers

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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Jesse Jackson

AttitudeTodayHopeBelieveAchieve

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou

CouragePracticeYouImportant

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

Robert Indiana

TimeSimplePaintingColorProcess

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Matt Taibbi

BusinessTimeMoneyBackSituation

As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.

Stanley Marcus

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When I look at jobs, one of the most relevant questions I ask is, 'Is this something I've done before, or is it a chance to experience a new context, tone and relationship?' I also ask if it's a story worth telling and a character with a reason to exist... someone who reflects the human condition.

Rose McIver

CharacterRelationshipExperienceNew

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Rose Tremain

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Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.

Janice Dickinson

BetterFeelWhateverIndividualMake

For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

Cheech Marin

PeopleProudPlaceComeMostPart

We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.

Briga Heelan

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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

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I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.

Pico Iyer

GirlMyselfDoorThinkShortChoose

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