Christine Quinn Quotes
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.Christine Quinn
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne -
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher -
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
Octavia Spencer -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu -
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Flip Wilson -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
Marat Safin -
If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
Iris Apfel -
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
Naftali Bennett -
Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell -
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
Larry Bird -
I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
Patrick Kane
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My priority is to repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal and vote to do that. I think it's extremely dangerous... you don't negotiate with terrorists.
Darryl Glenn -
In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
Rachel Kushner -
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
John McGahern -
It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.
Michael Douglas -
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
Christine Quinn