Yvonne Orji Quotes
I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
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Justice is revenge.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'
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Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
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My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.
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My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
