Joan Didion Quotes
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
Joan Didion
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
Patrick Ewing
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
Kacey Musgraves
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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
Arthur Helps
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It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeown
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Yes, I do feel a deep responsibility every time, every character, everything that I do.
Corey Hawkins
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It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.
John Skipper
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
Maya Angelou
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A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
Joan Didion