Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes
The world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Trends don't interest me.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
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This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.
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The secret of life is in art.
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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock and six hours have gone by and you're, like, "Whoa! What the hell just happened?" And that piece ends up in the final product even though the final product is three years away. It doesn't get rewritten. It came out the right way. But that's happened to me so few times in my life.
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I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!
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I love 'Die Hard,' man. It's the best.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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The world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
