Mary Gaitskill Quotes
I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.Mary Gaitskill
Quotes to Explore
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I like to prove people wrong.
Zach LaVine -
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
Salman Rushdie -
If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
Verite -
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina -
In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
Olivier Theyskens -
I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
Naveen Jain
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
Jack Lowden -
When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
Xavier Rudd -
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
Ram Shriram -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable -
Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
Yossi Sarid -
When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor Swift -
You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
Patrick Lencioni -
All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
iO Tillett Wright
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
J. J. Abrams -
You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.
Don Young -
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
Dan Deacon -
The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall -
I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.
Mary Gaitskill