Bozoma Saint John Quotes
Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
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I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
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Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
