David Foster Wallace Quotes
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I'm in good shape.
Gary Lineker
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We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.
Faye Wattleton
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
J. R. Moehringer
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Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,Não há nada mais simples.Tem só duas datas-a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.
Fernando Pessoa
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Aldo Leopold
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It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
Eric Braeden
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I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.
Charlie Sykes
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Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
Billy Martin
Good Charlotte
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I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.
Angelique Kerber
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Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
Jason Reitman
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Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.
Anthony Robbins
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S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.
Anatole France
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He was fussy and very childlike. He'd be a handful, ... He'd have you so angry, but then he'd come up and hug you. He was just aggravated and somewhat fearful about the key. But we knew if we made him stretch, he'd have to invent something for the performance, slide off into a little falsetto, and it just worked.
Lamont Dozier
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
Edwin H. Friedman
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'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'
David Foster Wallace
