Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson -
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
Halston Sage
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz -
No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen -
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
Adam Hamilton -
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen -
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
Barbara Palvin -
I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal -
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama -
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi -
I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
Zadie Smith
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I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
David Souter -
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
Robert Frost -
I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
Adam Driver -
Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
Yoko Ono -
I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
Marion Cotillard -
You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
Tahereh Mafi