Alycia Jasmin Quotes

#1. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

#2. It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Helen Dunmore

#3. You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Peter Drucker

#5. Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#6. I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.

Eugene Fama

#7. My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

Chanel Iman

#8. Love is the essence and the truth of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.

James Vance

#10. When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

Neil Peart

#11. Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

Walter Brueggemann

#12. In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

Firoozeh Dumas

#13. I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

Kevin Bacon