Joy Mangano Quotes
When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Accept loss forever.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie... Those were the people I actually wound up studying just to hone my craft.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
