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Quote of the Day: Leadership

"Being a leader is like being a lady.  If you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't."

-- Margaret Thatcher

Quote of the Day

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw

I'm on the road being swept off my feet.  I'll go public with my affairs in the next several days.    Forget the tabloids; The Fro Fro Blog has the exclusive on these hot romances!  Photos too!

Quote of the Day

"Jennifer doesn't say, 'I hate this' or 'I love this.'  She just does it.  There's never any complaining."
-- Gunnar Peterson, JLo's trainer

Quote of the Day: Top Chef

"I think I can make it to the top.  It's all about finesse, style, grace and elegance."
-- Chef Hung on last night's episode of "Top Chef"

The fact that Hung didn't practice what he preached made this quote all the more ironically delicious.

Quotes of the Day

My car was broken into tonight.  Glass everywhere, possessions stolen, feeling violated.  Some stuff of monetary value, other stuff valuable only to me.  Like that great brush Mom gave me that would blow my hair out straight like no other brush could, that was in my gym bag. 

Before getting too upset, I did what I often do to lift my spirits:  look for quotes.  (I know.  I came to terms with my inner geek long ago.)  I found two that were strikingly appropriate for me this week:

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget.  We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.  No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings."
-- Andre Maurois, French biographer, novelist and essayist, 1885-1967

"I'm very pleased with each advancing year.  It stems back to when I was forty.  I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.  'Don't complain about growing old -- many, many people do not have that privilege.'"
-- Earl Warren, American politician and judge, 1891-1974

Quote of the Day: Perseverance

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day: Wimbledon

"My dad used to put up some targets.  If I touched the targets, I get candy.  So I was very motivated.  Maybe that's why I'm still loving too much the candies.  But whatever."
-- Marion Bartoli, who was defeated by Venus Williams in the Wimbledon women's final yesterday. 

V. Williams (#23) became the lowest-seeded woman in the history of computer rankings to take the Wimbledon title.  She was also the first to win a championship purse equal to the one earned by the men's champion ($1.4 million).  You go, girl!  V. Williams def. M. Bartoli, 6-4, 6-1.

That men's champion was Roger Federer today, although it could have almost as easily been Rafael Nadal. The match was one of the closest, most exciting I've ever watched. Federer now shares a record with Bjorn Borg, who was in attendance -- they're the hottest men of all time in tennis.  Well, not officially.  But they are the only men to have won five consecutive Wimbledon championships in the modern era.  R. Federer def. Rafael Nadal,7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 6-2.

Nan Kempner: American Chic

"I want to be buried naked.  I know there'll be a store where I'm going."
-- Nan Kempner, socialite

Nan's private couture collection is on display at the de Young Museum through November 11.  Gorgeous pieces that are to die for, and so classic you'd wear them today. Nan said, "Fashion is a great deal of fun," and so is this exhibit.  Be careful, though -- seeing all those beautiful clothes makes you want to beeline straight to Neiman's.  You've been warned.

de Young Museum
(415) 750-3600
www.deyoungmuseum.org

More classic quotes from Nan and pics from the exhibit on Bits and Bobbins.

Quote of the Day: Age of Love

"I think older women with younger men threatens all the right people."
-- William Hamilton cartoon in The New Yorker

This quote also appeared as an introduction to tonight's premiere episode of Age of Love on NBC.  The premise?  A reality show a la The Bachelor, but with a twist.  Tennis star Mark Philippoussis (Lord knows if I spelled that right), 30, must choose the love of his TV life from among a group of women that includes 40-year-olds and 20-year-olds.

In tonight's installment, Mark masks a massive coronary when he realizes the entire first group of women is at least double the age of his last fling. However by the end he's regained his composure and is actually seeing how much fun it can be to date older women (go figure).  Next week, the 20-somethings join the party...

While this thing could go either way, I've got real money on my 40-somethings. (Insert bad tennis cliché here.)

Quotes of the Day

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

"The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

-- Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, born on this day in 1913.