Bourret Quotes & Sayings

If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they are. — Christine Pope

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. — Leon Kass

You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers ... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it. — Caprice Bourret

I came out of my mom's stomach thinking I was going to own America. — Caprice Bourret

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. — Polly Toynbee

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that. — Caprice Bourret

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult. — Caprice Bourret

I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.' — Caprice Bourret

Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that. — Caprice Bourret

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels. — Caprice Bourret

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going. — Caprice Bourret

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want ... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person. — Caprice Bourret

Men tend to be selfish. — Caprice Bourret

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless. — Caprice Bourret

People have to evolve. — Caprice Bourret

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. — Susan Estrich

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities. — Muriel Rukeyser

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor. — Howard Zinn

I love my sleep. — Caprice Bourret

My parents were both entrepreneurs. — Caprice Bourret

You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy. — Caprice Bourret

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'. — Caprice Bourret

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. — Caprice Bourret

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid. — Thom Yorke

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women. — Caprice Bourret

It was now late evening and Erika still couldn't sleep, one of the reasons was because of Shigeru, she had passed by his room and heard his unbearable screams as the spikes of bamboo were pulled out from his body followed by the strong stench of blood, she caused this to happen to him, during her bath Yukari told her not to blame herself for this, but it was, if she wasn't here then this would have never happened. — Tarynne Bourret

But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings. — Mary Balogh

I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there. — Caprice Bourret

What we call expertise is really just "vast amounts of knowledge, pattern-based retrieval, and planning mechanisms acquired over many years of experience in the associated domain." In other words, a great memory isn't just a by-product of expertise; it is the essence of expertise. — Joshua Foer

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months ... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend. — Caprice Bourret

But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty. — Avicenna

It's like night and day ... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward. — Caprice Bourret

Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor - no dignity, no character of his own. — John Steinbeck

My whole career - I have been really lucky. — Caprice Bourret

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work. — Caprice Bourret

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it. — Caprice Bourret

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever. — Leonora Carrington

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again. — Caprice Bourret

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential. — James Russell Lowell

Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it. — Caprice Bourret

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. — Erno Rubik