Laura Lippman Quotes
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.Laura Lippman
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
L'Wren Scott -
The British have always made terrible parents.
Rachel Cusk -
I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
Vanilla Ice -
I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
Malin Akerman -
I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
Carey Mulligan -
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
Wayne Huizenga
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Imre Lakatos -
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
Faith Hill -
Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
J.P. Rangaswami -
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
Idina Menzel
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
Valentino Rossi -
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves -
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Taylor Swift -
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
Dan Gilbert -
I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
Dallas Willard -
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
Zhang Yimou
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
Alan Rickman -
I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
Aristotle -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
Igor Ivanov -
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
Laura Lippman