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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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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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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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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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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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
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Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.
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I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
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My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
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You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
