Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt.. .I have fourteen canvases underway.
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
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Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
