Candice Olson Quotes
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I must take the best decision for the club, not for a single player.
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Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Me? You can't ask me that question. I sleep.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
