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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges -
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
‐‐ Alice Walker -
Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky -
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
‐‐ Benjamin Millepied -
Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade -
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically.
‐‐ Tony McCoy -
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
‐‐ Caio Fonseca -
Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen -
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin -
Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
‐‐ Sarah Kay -
Most decisions don't require extensive research.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin -
Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.
‐‐ George Vecsey -
Most designers and creative agencies, no matter their industry niche, will do some nonprofit or cause-related work at some stage of their career. This work helps us create a sense of purpose that is bigger than us. It connects us to our community, helps us leave a legacy and be part of something bigger than our own work.
‐‐ Peleg Top -
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
‐‐ Charles Pollock -
Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood -
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.
‐‐ Sue Naegle -
Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
‐‐ Kathy Freston -
Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
‐‐ Boyd Holbrook -
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
‐‐ Alan Parker -
Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
‐‐ Carice van Houten -
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
‐‐ Stella Young -
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
‐‐ Peter Drucker -
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
‐‐ Lynn Coady -
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
‐‐ Tom Baker -
Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer -
Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'
‐‐ Tommy Lee -
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
‐‐ Lauren DeStefano -
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy -
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
‐‐ Milton Friedman -
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.
‐‐ Steve Hanke -
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
‐‐ Peter Landesman -
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi -
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
‐‐ David Tudor -
Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki -
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
‐‐ Stuart Rose -
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
‐‐ Greg Boyle -
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam -
Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones.
‐‐ Marie Helvin -
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
‐‐ J. G. Ballard -
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
‐‐ Jared Sparks -
Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton -
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
‐‐ Albert Brooks -
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
‐‐ Reed Hastings -
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
‐‐ Michael Gerber -
Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.
‐‐ Eric Ries -
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold -
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer
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