Vanessa Mae Quotes

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

Vanessa Mae

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ThinkPotentialBornWillComeKids

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Jesse Eisenberg

AgePeopleFeelFriendsKnowMature

There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

AltruismThing

I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.

Spike Jonze

ThreeSayMoreSeenGotBrothers

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tony Hawk

AchievementThinkPersonalFirstUp

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

Tony Scott

DoingYouPhoneSayDirectorUp

I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.

Tom Watson

LifeLiveHopeRespectPeopleTreat

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

Robin S. Sharma

SuccessDoingEasyYouRiseStop

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Ronnie Dunn

MusicHobbyHobbiesAny

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

Romesh Gunesekera

Growing UpWorldReadingPlaceYoung

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.

Mike Nichols

MotherGirlDaySchoolNightDesire

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

AgeMemoryMindInjuriesStronger

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.

Molly Ivins

WomenLittle ThingsFlySmallImpact

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