Max Lerner Quotes
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
Becky G -
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
Randall Munroe -
Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Zig Ziglar
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
Zac Goldsmith -
The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman -
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
Karan Johar -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
Pankaj Mishra -
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
Sam Brownback -
When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
T. J. Perkins -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston
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You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig -
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
G. H. Hardy -
Spreading my love and extending my hand is what life's all about.
Antonio Brown -
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
Alice Sebold -
Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
Frederik Pohl -
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner