My Favorite Quotes - Page 38

• My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Real, Singing, Eva Peron

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

  Derek Sivers

  Jobs, Independent, Hands

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Children, Eye, Reality

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

  Pete Wentz

  Watches, Obsessed, All Time

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• [My favorite word?] "Yes."

  Pamela Anderson

  Favorite Words

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2008.

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• One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

  Christopher Owens

  Aunt, San Francisco, Giving

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

  Demetri Martin

  Firsts, First Time, Jokes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sunday, Night, Cleaning

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.

  Dylan Lauren

  Beautiful, California, Hiking

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• All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

  Eddie Argos

  Favorite Song

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• My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Color White, Yellow

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Real, Writing

  Associated Press Interview, November 3, 2006.

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• My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.

  Justin Bieber

  Thinking, Fans, World

  "Justin Bieber Talks 'Surviving' Puberty". Vibe.com Interview, www.mtv.com. July 23, 2010.

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Children, Sound

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• One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

  Selena Gomez

  Song, Powerful, Done

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hate, People, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

  Gene Weingarten

  Kings, Book, Doctors

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• I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Memories, Way, Painful

  Vogue magazine Interview, November 2008.

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• My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Stories, Bones

  "Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny". Interview by Alex Heatley, Phlogiston Forty Four, 1995.

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• My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Brother, Memories

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• A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.

  Dave Genn

  Creative, Supportive, Collaboration

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• I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Writing, Sometimes, Revising

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