Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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People trash talk me.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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I'm definitely more of a makeup person than a skincare person. I'd love someone to teach me exactly what to do with my skin, but then again, I am also lazy.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
