Rachel Cohn Quotes
Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.Rachel Cohn
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd -
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
Jack Canfield
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
Dana Perino -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking -
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
Ian K. Smith
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips -
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole -
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride -
I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
Flume -
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
Natalie Dormer
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I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.
Yolanda Hadid -
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
William Blake -
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
Ayelet Waldman -
My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.
Brandi Carlile -
Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
Rachel Cohn