J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
