Jessica Livingston Quotes
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.
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If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
