James McBride Quotes
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers -
To be a Jew is a destiny.
Vicki Baum -
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni -
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
Nandan Nilekani -
Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
Zac Efron
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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
Rachel Cusk -
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall -
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
Lara Spencer -
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.
Patricia Hewitt -
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
A. S. Byatt
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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
Madeleine Albright -
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.
Ayn Rand -
I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein -
Turns out moonlighting as a model is harder than I thought!
Elaine Welteroth -
'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.
Lucy Dacus
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Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it's 'Oh, God!' But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.
Cindy Margolis -
When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker's daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?
Ann Nocenti -
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.
Kate Crawford -
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
James McBride