Nell Freudenberger Quotes
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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Our system of philosophy is itself on trial; it must stand or fall according as it is broad enough to find room for this experience as an element of life.
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‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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Need is not quite belief.
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Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
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The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.
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I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
