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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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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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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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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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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I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
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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.
