Marion Milner Quotes
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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We're on to Cincinnati.
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People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
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Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium.
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Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
