Ezra Cornell Quotes
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
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I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
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Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
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I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.
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I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
