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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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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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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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
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Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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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.
