Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
