James C. Collins Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
Naomi Klein
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Patrick Modiano
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
Warren Rudman
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Patrick Murray
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
Maggie Gallagher
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I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
Walt Handelsman
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
Zooey Deschanel
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I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.
A. A. Milne
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
Wallace Stevens
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
Condoleezza Rice
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We are a country with a conscience.
John McCain
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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
John Dryden
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Irish as a Paddy's pig.
Eugene O'Neill
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
Kara Walker
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Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell
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I am completely Socratic.
James C. Collins