Simone Signoret Quotes
Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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Compton is my city.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
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Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.
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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
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Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.
