Sara Blakely Quotes
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
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γέροντα τὸν νοῦν, σάρκα δ᾽ ἡβῶσαν φύει
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This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep, personal tragedy. I know the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best; that is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's.
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Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
