Nancy Brinker Quotes
The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.
