Arthur George Street (A. G. Street) Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
