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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.
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The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.
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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.
