Philip Greenspun Quotes
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
Karen Salmansohn
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
Xavier Becerra
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
Dallas Roberts
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
Warwick Davis
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman
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Nothing wrong with making money.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.
Dan Pink
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What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
Bailee Madison
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum
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I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
R. Kelly
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.
Chuck Fleischmann
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Starting in late 2007, faced with acute financial market distress, the Federal Reserve created programs to keep credit flowing to households and businesses. The loans extended under those programs helped stabilize the financial system.
Janet Yellen
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I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.
Jodie Comer
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
Eckhart Tolle
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What is power without control?
Keiichi Tsuchiya
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Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
Philip Greenspun
