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I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection. -- Rachel Roy
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges. -- Michael Jordan
I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people. -- Guy Oseary
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works. -- Kurt Bills
Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best. -- Walter Payton
You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch. -- Viswanathan Anand
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good. -- Hans Bender
The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. -- Nuno Bettencourt
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. -- Victor Kiam
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business. -- Chuck Barris
There is no Them. There are only facets of Us. -- John Green
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution. -- Scott Cook
We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different. -- Eva Green
I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself. -- Ariel Pink
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors. -- Wm. Paul Young
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides. -- Jonathan LaPaglia
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. -- Alice Miller
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things. -- Kevin Nealon
I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more. -- Jane Pauley
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. -- Emanuel Celler
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting. -- Pat Summerall
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are? -- Eric Kripke
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?' -- Eric Kripke
The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time. -- Anna Gunn
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. -- Eva Green
For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is. -- Jodi Picoult
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself. -- Linda Lavin
I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself. -- Jason Wu
It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard. -- Rick Riordan
Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting. -- Angelina Jolie
The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing. -- Andrew Revkin
What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure. -- Jo Beverley
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities. -- Lupe Fiasco
Qigong is a jewel that has many facets. -- Ken Cohen
I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. -- Edmond Jabes
A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart. -- Angelica Hopes
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime. -- Malachy McCourt
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. -- Romare Bearden
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . . -- LaVell Edwards
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. -- Janis Ian
Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself. -- Nick Offerman
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being. -- Betty Sue Flowers
Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws. -- Wes Fesler
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors. -- Wm. Paul Young
By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived. -- Timothy Keller
I believe there are many soul mates, because my soul has a lot of different facets and it needs a lot of different... -- Cameron Diaz
I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it. -- Jeff Daniels
I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better. -- Nick Kroll
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). -- Philip Kitcher
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head. -- Brian Eno
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing. -- Vusi Mahlasela
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor. -- Hedda Hopper
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words. -- Carlos Castaneda
As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion. -- Nicki Minaj
By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. -- C. S. Lewis
The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond. -- Lester Bangs
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that. -- Nathan Fillion
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken. -- Terry Pratchett
Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry. -- Ashley Rickards
I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life. -- Daryl Hall
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup. -- Jeremy Begbie
The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it. -- Rick Pitino
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust. -- C. J. Mahaney
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The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty. -- Mark Driscoll
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces. -- Marshall McLuhan
Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays. -- Philip Kitcher
So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that. -- Tony Blair
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I know when I like to go see a show, I like to see people show as many different facets of themselves as they can, because I think that's the fun of it. -- Jason Graae
There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself. -- Enza Vita
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle. -- Edgar Degas
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage. -- Nancy Marchand
Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis. -- Sue Barker
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other ... -- Dorothea Brande

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