Sara Blakely Quotes
I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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If we get it right, there need not be losers.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
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I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.
