Jessamyn West Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
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I appreciate Detroit so much.
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In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Teaching is the royal road to learning.
