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Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.
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If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!
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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.
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Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
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I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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Kindness eases change.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
