Valorie Curry Quotes
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.