Jeff Baena Quotes
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
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I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong.
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For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
