Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
Aaron Levie -
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner -
Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
Parker Posey -
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky -
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Ian Anderson
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Mac DeMarco -
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot -
I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
T. Boone Pickens -
They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
Kate Clinton -
I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Larry King -
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne -
I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
Uzo Aduba -
I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
Sally Hawkins -
I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
Gallagher -
I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
Magic Johnson -
The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
A. Scott Berg -
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen -
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
Abbey Lincoln -
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
Carine Roitfeld -
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
Ha-Joon Chang -
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen