Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
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Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
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While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.
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Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.
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Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
