Mountakis Quotes & Sayings

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever. — Mike McGavick

It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested. — Patti Davis

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box. — Brian Eno

I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think that artists need good lawyers and accountants, because they're dealing with serious money. But an artist who stands behind a manager? That's a little different. I think that can be a bad buffer. — Larry Gagosian

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. — Ryan Seacrest

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. — David Rockefeller

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos. — Paris Hilton

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. — W. Somerset Maugham

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level. — Donnie Burns