Mary Callahan Erdoes Quotes
You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.
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That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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...I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not to be a silly ass, the good man is entitled, I think, to assume that the whole thing is off.
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You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
