Marya Hornbacher Quotes
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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The audiences love to see me fight on screen.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.
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Frankly, I think I might scare the parties, and that would be a good thing.
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I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.
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I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.
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I had the kind of family where I was told it was my job to study. They would work out the finances.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
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I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.
