David Grann Quotes
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.David Grann
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
Nacho Figueras -
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
Yair Lapid -
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble -
I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
Ted Yoho -
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
Ofra Strauss
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
Samira Wiley -
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown -
Explosions are not comfortable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
Barney Ross -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
Vidya Balan -
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel -
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo -
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini
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I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
James Carville -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
Alan Alda -
Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson -
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
Peter James -
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
David Grann