Sara Blakely Quotes
Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.
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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
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My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.
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As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
