Judith Guest Quotes
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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Evidence is now available to indicate that the 14-to-18- year-old group is an increasing segment of the smoking population. RJR-T must soon establish a successful new brand in this market if our position in the industry is to be maintained over the long term.
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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
