Bess Myerson Quotes
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.
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When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
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I'm coming back as a cat or a tree or a molecule in my next life.
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'That man is … odd,' I dared say to William.'He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.'
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I cannot think of any other couple who deserves this honor any more than Jim and Arlene.
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.
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I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
